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17 A friend loves at all times;
    and a brother is born for adversity.

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17 A friend loveth at all times;
And [a]a brother is born for adversity.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 17:17 Or, is born as a brother

24 A man of many companions may be ruined,
    but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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24 [a]He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction;
But there is a [b]friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

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  1. Proverbs 18:24 Hebrew A man of friends.
  2. Proverbs 18:24 Hebrew lover.

The wounds of a friend are faithful,
    although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

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Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
But the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

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Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart;
    so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

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Oil and perfume rejoice the heart;
So doth the sweetness of a man’s friend that cometh of hearty counsel.

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10 Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend.
    Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster.
    A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

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10 Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not;
And go not to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity:
Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

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