SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:20
¶ El pobre es odioso aun a su amigo; pero muchos son los que aman al rico.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 14:20
Verse 20. But the rich hath many friends. ] Many who speak to him the language of friendship; but if they profess friendship because he is rich, there is not one real friend among them. There is a fine saying of Cicero on this subject: Ut hirundines festivo tempore praesto sunt, frigore pulsae recedunt: ita falsi amici sereno tempore praesto sunt: simul atque fortunae hiemem viderint, evolant omnes. - Lib. iv., ad Herenn. "They are like swallows, who fly off during the winter, and quit our cold climates; and do not return till the warm season: but as soon as the winter sets in, they are all off again." So Horace: - Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos: Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes. "As long as thou art prosperous, thou shalt have many friends: but who of them will regard thee when thou hast lost thy wealth?"
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. The poor is hated even of his own neighbour , etc.] As well as of strangers; that is, he is shy of him; he does not care to take any notice of him, or be friendly with him, lest he should be burdensome to him. Poverty brings a man into contempt and disgrace; the same man, in affluence and indigence, is respected or disrespected: this is true, as Gersom observes, of a man that is poor, whether in money or in knowledge, in his purse or in his understanding; but the rich [hath] many friends ; or, “many [are] the lovers of the rich” f403 : for the sake of their riches; either for the sake of honour or profit, or because the rich want nothing of them, or because they themselves may gain something by them: this also is observed by the above Jewish commentator to be true of the rich in substance or in wisdom; but the former sense is best; for a wise man, if poor in the world, is but little regarded.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20 - Friendship in the world is governed by self-interest. It is good to have God our Friend; he will not desert us.
Original Hebrew
גם 1571 לרעהו 7453 ישׂנא 8130 רשׁ 7326 ואהבי 157 עשׁיר 6223 רבים׃ 7227
