Proverbs 18:24
A man amiable in society, shall be more friendly than a brother.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vir amabilis ad societatem magis amicus erit quam frater.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- The Septuagint has no verse matching this one here: it lacks the verse, or carries it elsewhere in its own order.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אִ֣ישׁ רֵ֭עִים לְהִתְרֹעֵ֑עַ וְיֵ֥שׁ אֹ֝הֵ֗ב דָּבֵ֥ק מֵאָֽח
Haydock's commentary
Brother. The ties of nature are not so strong as those of friendship. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "a man that hath friends must shew himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." (Protestants) (Haydock)
Ut ameris ama. (Martial)
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.