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- If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known, …
- A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,
- “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
- My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
- He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. …
- Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
- I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
- Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
- For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide. …
- You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
- You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
- A gossip reveals a secret, but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.
- Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.
- A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
- A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
- Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man, …
- Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.
- Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
- The wounds of a friend are faithful, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
- Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the counsel of a friend is sweetness to the soul.
- Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
- If one blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted to him as a curse.
- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
- As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.
- Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. …
- Can two walk together without agreeing where to go?
- At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.