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Proverbs 18
An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels. Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes reproach. ...

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  1. The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
  2. The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.
  3. A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.
  4. Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
  5. One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
  6. Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.
  7. The poor are shunned by all their relatives— how much more do their friends avoid them! Though the poor pursue them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found.
  8. Saying 3

    Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered,
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34 topical index results for “friends”

AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES : FORSAKEN BY FRIENDS IN: INSTANCES OF (Job 2:9;19:13-19)
ELIHU : A Buzite and one of Job's three friends (Job 32;;;;;)
ANGER » INSTANCES OF » Elihu, because Job had beaten his friends in argument (Job 32:3)
CONDOLENCE » INSTANCES OF » The three friends of, to Job (Job 2:11)
DECEPTION » INSTANCES OF » Job's friends (Job 6:15)
DIPLOMACY » INSTANCES OF » Of Toi, to promote the friendship of David (2 Samuel 8:10)
FALSEHOOD » INSTANCES OF » The falsehood of friendship to Absalom that David put in the mouth of Hushai (2 Samuel 15:34-37)
FASTING » INSTANCES OF » While interceding in prayer for his friends (Psalms 35:13)
FRIENDSHIP » INSTANCES OF » Job and his three "friends," (Job 2:11-13)
JEZREEL » A city of the tribe of Issachar » Jehu kills King Ahab, his wife, and friends at (2 Kings 9:15-37;10:11)
JOSEPH » Son of Jacob » Is falsely accused, and thrown into prison; is delivered by the friendship of another prisoner (Genesis 39;; Psalms 105:18)
LOVE » INSTANCES OF » Job's friends (Job 42:11)
PRUDENCE » INSTANCES OF » His lack of, in his persistence in going to Jerusalem despite the warnings of the Spirit and his friends (Acts 20:22-25,37,38;21:10-14)