A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

滥交朋友的，自取败坏；但有一朋友比弟兄更亲密。

朋友太多的人，必受损害；但有一知己比兄弟更亲密。

朋友太多的人，必受损害；但有一知己比兄弟更亲密。

滥交友，自招损；得知己，胜手足。

朋友众多的人，终必彼此破裂，但有一位朋友，比兄弟更亲密。

朋友太多的人，会受损害；但有一知己，比兄弟更亲密。

濫交朋友的，自取敗壞；但有一朋友比弟兄更親密。

朋友太多的人，必受損害；但有一知己比兄弟更親密。

朋友太多的人，必受損害；但有一知己比兄弟更親密。

濫交友，自招損；得知己，勝手足。

朋友眾多的人，終必彼此破裂，但有一位朋友，比兄弟更親密。

有些朋友只是做同伴；但有愛友、比弟兄更親密。

朋友太多的人，會受損害；但有一知己，比兄弟更親密。

濫交多友、必致敗亡、有友一人、親於昆弟、

泛交眾人、必致損害、得一知己、愈於兄弟。

泛交眾人、必致受害、然有時朋友較兄弟更親、

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A person with unfaithful friends soon comes to ruin. But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

There are“ friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.

One with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

A person of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

A man with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

A man[ that hath] friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend[ that] sticketh closer than a brother.

A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him,“ Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

David said,“ Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him,“ Are you Ziba?” He said,“ I am your servant.”The king said,“ Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king,“ Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet.”The king said to him,“ Where is he?” Ziba said to the king,“ Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.”Then king David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and showed respect. David said,“ Mephibosheth.” He answered,“ Behold, your servant!”David said to him,“ Don’t be afraid; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”He bowed down, and said,“ What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him,“ All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.Then Ziba said to the king,“ According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table, like one of the king’s sons.Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All that lived in Ziba’s house were servants to Mephibosheth.So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet.

Absalom said to Hushai,“ Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

Immediately he came to Jesus, and said,“ Hail, Rabbi!” and kissed him.Jesus said to him,“ Friend, why are you here?” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

Mephibosheth said to the king,“ Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.The king said to Barzillai,“ Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”Barzillai said to the king,“ How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”The king answered,“ Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you request of me, that I will do for you.”All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had supplied provisions for them.Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.

When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said,“ The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying,“ Behold, a present for you from the plunder of Yahweh’s enemies.”He sent it to those who were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of the South, to those who were in Jattir,to those who were in Aroer, to those who were in Siphmoth, to those who were in Eshtemoa,to those who were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,to those who were in Hormah, to those who were in Borashan, to those who were in Athach,to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.