Proverbs
Chapters 18:21-24
Amplified Bible
21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]. [Matt. 12:37.]
22He who finds a [true] wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. [Prov. 19:14; 31:10.]
23The poor man uses entreaties, but the rich answers roughly.
24The man of many friends [a friend of all the world] will prove himself a bad friend, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.