 | Michael Friedländer - Judaism - 1891 - 552 pages
...and with a furious man thou shalt not go " (xxii. 24). Bensira (vi. 6) exhorts us, " If thou wouldst get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him." Our Sages say, " It is easy to make an enemy ; it is difficult to make a friend " (Yalkut on Deut.... | |
 | John Todd - 1860 - 204 pages
...nevertheless, have but one counsellor in a thousand. If thou wouldst get a friend, prove him first, and bo not hasty to credit him ; for some man is a friend...occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble. Separate thyself from thine enemies, and take heed to thy friends. A faithful friend is a strong defence,... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1895 - 344 pages
...CAUTIOUS with cheap persons, where no friendship can AOADtST >,„ BASE ut" ra1ENDsmr 14 jf thou wouidst get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to...his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of trouble. 15. Accept no person against thy soul. 16. Whatever is founded on mere carnal love, vanity... | |
 | Frederick Arthur Hyndman - 1900 - 456 pages
...kind greetings. (6) Be in peace with many : nevertheless have but one counsellor of a thousand. (7) If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him. (8) For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble. (9)... | |
 | Henry Preserved Smith - Judaism - 1914 - 386 pages
...against easy friendship: "Be at peace with many but let thy friend be one of a thousand; if thou wouldst get a friend, prove him first and be not hasty to credit him; for many an one is a friend for the time, but abides not for the day of need; many a friend becomes an... | |
 | Dwight Edwards Marvin - Proverbs - 1922 - 358 pages
..."Prosperity is no just scale, adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."—PLUTARCH, AD, 46-120. "Some man is a friend for his own occasion and will not abide in the day of wrath."— ECCLUS., 6: 8. "A friend cannot be known in prosperity and an enemy cannot be hid in adversity."—ECCLUS.,... | |
 | Dwight Edwards Marvin - Proverbs - 1922 - 362 pages
..."Prosperity is no just scale, adversity is the only balance to weigh friends." — PLUTARCH, AD, 46-120. "Some man is a friend for his own occasion and will not abide in the day of wrath." — ECCLUS., 6: 8. "A friend cannot be known in prosperity and an enemy cannot be hid in adversity."... | |
 | Robert P. Carroll, Stephen Prickett - Bibles - 1998 - 1828 pages
...increase kind greetings. 6 Be in peace with many : nevertheless have but one counsellor of a thousand. 7 i v } 8 For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble. 9 And... | |
 | Jacques Bénigne Bossuet - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 500 pages
...will take up a shield against the enemy."64 And again: "There is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble. And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a friend that will disclose hatred and strife and reproaches.... | |
 | 裕之·真下 - Islam - 2003 - 576 pages
...faithful friend is a strong defence ; and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure. * * * If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him. For there is a friend," &c. friendship for lightening the burden, or aiding us to recover our lost composure.... | |
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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. 
