Sirach 37:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

False Friends

37 Every friend says, ‘I too am a friend’;
    but some friends are friends only in name.
²Is it not a sorrow like that for death itself
    when a dear friend turns into an enemy?
³O inclination to evil, why were you formed
    to cover the land with deceit?

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