Proverbs 19:4

Wealth maketh many friends ,.... Or "adds" F6 יסיף . "addit", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ; it increases the number of them: so the poet F7 Ovid. , "donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos"; and to this agrees what the wise man says, Proverbs 14:20 ;

but the poor is separated from his neighbour ; or "friend" F8 מרעהו "ab amico sua", Pagninus, Montanus, Baynus, Junius & Tremeliius, Piscator, Michaelis; "a sodali sua", Schultens. ; he will not visit him as he did in his prosperity, nor suffer him to come into his house or company, or come near him; he is separated from his affection, friendship, and presence: so another poet F9 Theognis. ,

"if thou art rich, thou wilt have many friends; but, if poor, few.'