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2 Kings 16:17

And Absalom said to him: Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why wentest thou not with thy friend?

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Ad quem Absalom : Hæc est, inquit, gratia tua ad amicum tuum ? quare non ivisti cum amico tuo ?
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ εἶπεν Ἀβεσσαλὼμ πρὸς Χουσεί Τοῦτο τὸ ἔλεός σου μετὰ τοῦ ἑταίρου σου; ἵνα τί οὐκ ἀπῆλθες μετὰ τοῦ ἑταίρου σου;
Hebrew (WLC): וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אַבְשָׁלוֹם֙ אֶל חוּשַׁ֔י זֶ֥ה חַסְדְּךָ֖ אֶת רֵעֶ֑ךָ לָ֥מָּה לֹֽא הָלַ֖כְתָּ אֶת רֵעֶֽךָ

Haydock's commentary

Friend. He rather accuses him of treachery. (Haydock)

But he does not mention the name of king, or of father, lest it should too plainly speak his own condemnation, as an ungrateful rebel. (Salien)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.