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Sirach 37:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Sirach 37:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
False Friends
37 Every friend says, “I, too, am a friend,”
but some friends are friends only in name.(A)
2 Does not sorrow draw near to death
when a companion and friend[a] turns into an enemy?(B)
3 O inclination to evil, why were you formed
to cover the land with deceit?
Footnotes
- 37.2 Heb reads a friend like yourself
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