Ecclesiasticus 37:1
Every friend will say: I also am his friend: but there is a friend, that is only a friend in name. Is not this a grief even to death?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Omnis amicus dicet : Et ego amicitiam copulavi : sed est amicus solo nomine amicus. Nonne tristitia inest usque ad mortem ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Death. Greek explains this: (Calmet) I mean (2.) "a companion and friend turned?" &c. (Haydock)
True friendship is most necessary, and false most dangerous. (Worthington)
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.