Sirach 6:6-8

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁶ Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor.

⁷ If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily.

⁸ For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble.