Proverbs 14:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Is hated, i.e. despised and abandoned, as hateful persons and things are. His own neighbour; strictly so called, who is nearest to him, either by habitation or by relation, and therefore most obliged to love and help him.

Proverbs 14:20

20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the richb hath many friends.