Proverbs 19:7
7 When you're down on your luck, even your family avoids you - yes, even your best friends wish you'd get lost. If they see you coming, they look the other way - out of sight, out of mind.
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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.