Good News Translation
Anyone can claim to be your friend, but some people are friends in name only.

New Revised Standard Version
Every friend says, “I too am a friend”; but some friends are friends only in name.

Contemporary English Version
Someone who claims to be your friend may not be telling the truth.

New American Bible
Every friend declares friendship, but there are friends who are friends in name only.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Every friend will say: I also am his friend: but there is a friend, that is only a friend in name. Is not this a grief even to death?

Every friend will say: I also am his friend: but there is a friend, that is only a friend in name. Is not this a grief even to death?

Sirach 36:27
Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want.

Sirach 36:28
Who will trust him that hath no rest, and that lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him, as a robber well appointed, that skippeth from city to city.

Sirach 37:2
But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy.

Sirach 37:3
O wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceitfulness?