Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation The grief caused when a close friendship turns sour is as bad as death. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy. Sirach 36:28Who 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 37:1 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 37:3 O wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceitfulness? Sirach 37:4 There is a companion who rejoiceth with his friend in his joys, but in the time of trouble, he will be against him. Context Sirach 37…1Every 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? 2But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy. 3O wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceitfulness?… Cross References 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 37:1 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 37:3 O wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceitfulness? Sirach 37:4 There is a companion who rejoiceth with his friend in his joys, but in the time of trouble, he will be against him. |