7 All the brothers of a poor man hate him; How much e more do his friends abandon him! He pursues them with words , but they are gone .

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.