SinaiProverbs 18:23
American Standard Version
The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.
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Proverbs 18:23 in other translations
The poor plead for mercy,
but the rich answer harshly.
Proverbs 18:23 in context
- 21Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
- 22Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.
- 23The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.
- 24He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.