Sirach 37:1-3

Wycliffe Bible

37 Each friend shall say, And I have coupled friendship; but that is a friend, a friend by name alone. [Each friend shall say, And I friendship coupled; but there is a friend, by only name a friend.]

² Whether sorrow is not till to death? Forsooth a fellow of (the) table and a friend shall be turned to enmity. [Whether not sorrow is unto death? A meat-fellow forsooth a friend to enmity shall be turned.]

³ A! the worst presumption, whereof art thou made to cover dry malice, and the guilefulness thereof? [O! most shrewd (or most depraved) presumption, whence art thou formed to cover dry malice, and the treachery of it?]