New Revised Standard Version
If the poor are hated even by their kin, how much more are they shunned by their friends! When they call after them, they are not there.

Contemporary English Version
If you are poor, your own relatives reject you, and your friends are worse. When you really need them, they are not there.

New American Bible
All the kin of the poor despise them; how much more do their friends shun them!

Douay-Rheims Bible
The brethren of the poor man hate him: moreover also his friends have departed far from him. He that followeth after words only, shall have nothing.

The brethren of the poor man hate him: moreover also his friends have departed far from him. He that followeth after words only, shall have nothing.

the brethren

Proverbs 19:4 Riches make many friends: but from the poor man, even they whom he had, depart.

Proverbs 14:20 The poor man shall be hateful even to his own neighbour: but the friends of the rich are many.

Psalm 38:11 My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:

Psalm 88:8,18 Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth: . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:15,16 Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man. . . .

James 2:6 But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might? And do not they draw you before the judgment seats?

he

Proverbs 21:13 He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be heard.

Luke 18:38-40 And he cried out, saying: Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me. . . .

yet

Proverbs 18:23 The poor will speak with supplications, and the rich will speak roughly.

James 2:15,16 And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food: . . .

1 John 3:17,18 He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? . . .