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

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

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

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10 Do not forsake your friend and (A)your father's friend,
    and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity.
(B)Better is a neighbour who is near
    than a brother who is far away.

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10 Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,
    and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster(A) strikes you—
    better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.

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10 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

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16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. (A)Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.

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16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you(A) or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go,(B) and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people(C) and your God my God.(D)

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16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

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14 “He who (A)withholds[a] kindness from a (B)friend
    forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:14 Syriac, Vulgate (compare Targum); the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

14 “Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend(A)
    forsakes the fear of the Almighty.(B)

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14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

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