Proverbs 19:7
7 All the relatives of the poor shun him:
how much more do his friends avoid him!
He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
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7 All the relatives of the poor shun him:
how much more do his friends avoid him!
He pursues them with pleas, 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.