7 All the brothers of the poor hate him; How much more do his friends go far from him! He may pursue them with words, yet they abandon him.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 19:7

Commentary on Proverbs 19:7

(Read Proverbs 19:7)

Christ was left by all his disciples; but the Father was with him. It encourages our faith that he had so large an experience of the sorrows of poverty.