Sirach 6:8
Good News Translation
Some people will be your friends only when it is convenient for them, but they won't stand by you in trouble.

New Revised Standard Version
For there are friends who are such when it suits them, but they will not stand by you in time of trouble.

Contemporary English Version
because some will be friendly when everything is fine, but they won't help when you have trouble.

New American Bible
For there are friends when it suits them, but they will not be around in time of trouble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble.

Sirach 6:6
Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor.

Sirach 6:7
If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily.

Sirach 6:9
And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a friend that will disclose hatred and strife and reproaches.

Sirach 6:10
And there is a friend a companion at the table, and he will not abide in the day of distress.

Context
Sirach 6
7If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily. 8For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble. 9And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a friend that will disclose hatred and strife and reproaches.…
Cross References
Sirach 6:6
Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor.

Sirach 6:7
If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily.

Sirach 6:9
And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a friend that will disclose hatred and strife and reproaches.

Sirach 6:10
And there is a friend a companion at the table, and he will not abide in the day of distress.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

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