 | 2003 - 322 Seiten
...show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24. 3 If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him. Ecclesiasticus 6:7. 4 A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath... | |
 | José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, David L. Frye - 2004 - 586 Seiten
...truest of books, we read all these pronouncements: "For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble. And there is a friend, a companion at the table, and he will not abide in the day of distress." In the same book it says:... | |
 | John Hamilton Moore - 1806 - 402 Seiten
...almost say of humour) has he described the behaviour of a treacherous and self-interested friend — " If thou wouldest " get a friend) prove him first,...occasion, " and will not abide in the day of thy trouble: 9. " And there is a friend, who being turned to enmity u and strife, will discover thy reproach." Again,... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 532 Seiten
...display its perfect flower in the eyes of men. 'If thon wouldst get a friend,' said the son \ of Sirach, 'prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him ;...occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble.' No friendship can flourish where it is bestowed unworthily. There must be harmony and equality. There... | |
 | Ernest Brown Bowen-Rowlands - 1891 - 1116 Seiten
...friend than is contained in that second chapter at its close We are told elsewhere of the man that is " a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble," but Job's friends, however in error in their speech, were true of heart. The occasions in the best... | |
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get a friend prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him : for " some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in " the day of thy trouble. And there is a friend, who, being " turned to enmity and strife, will discover thy reproach. 
