Sirach 12:9
Good News Translation
even your friends will leave you then. But when you are successful, your enemies will act like friends.

New Revised Standard Version
One’s enemies are friendly when one prospers, but in adversity even one’s friend disappears.

Contemporary English Version
Even your enemies act friendly when you are well off, but only true friends stay when trouble strikes.

New American Bible
When one is successful even an enemy is friendly; but in adversity even a friend disappears.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the prosperity of a man, his enemies are grieved: and a friend is known in his adversity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the prosperity of a man, his enemies are grieved: and a friend is known in his adversity.

Sirach 12:7
For thou shalt receive twice as much evil for all the good thou shalt have done to him: for the Highest also hateth sinners, and will repay vengeance to the ungodly.

Sirach 12:8
A friend shall not be known in prosperity, and an enemy shall not be hidden in adversity.

Sirach 12:10
Never trust thy enemy for as a brass pot his wickedness rusteth:

Sirach 12:11
Though he humble himself and go crouching, yet take good heed and beware of him.

Context
Sirach 12
8A friend shall not be known in prosperity, and an enemy shall not be hidden in adversity. 9In the prosperity of a man, his enemies are grieved: and a friend is known in his adversity. 10Never trust thy enemy for as a brass pot his wickedness rusteth:…
Cross References
Sirach 12:7
For thou shalt receive twice as much evil for all the good thou shalt have done to him: for the Highest also hateth sinners, and will repay vengeance to the ungodly.

Sirach 12:8
A friend shall not be known in prosperity, and an enemy shall not be hidden in adversity.

Sirach 12:10
Never trust thy enemy for as a brass pot his wickedness rusteth:

Sirach 12:11
Though he humble himself and go crouching, yet take good heed and beware of him.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 12:8
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