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Proverbs 17:17
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A friend loves at all times,and a brother is born for a difficult time.
A friend loves at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loves you all the time, and a brother helps in time of trouble.
A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loves at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.
A friende loueth at all times: and a brother is borne for aduersitie.
A friend loves at all times,And a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
A friend is always a friend, and relatives are born to share our troubles.
The friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loves you all the time, but a brother was born to help in times of trouble.
A friend loves at all times; but a brother is born for adversity.
Friends always show their love. What are relatives for if not to share trouble?
The friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loves at every time, but a brother is born for distress.
He is a frende that allwaye loueth, and in aduersite a man shal knowe who is his brother.
A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.
A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loueth at all times, and a brother is borne for aduersitie.
He is a frende that alway loueth, and in aduersitie a man shall knowe who is his brother.
Have thou a friend for every time, and let brethren be useful in distress; for on this account are they born.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
He that is a frend, loueth in al tyme; and a brother is preuyd in angwischis.
A friend loves at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.
A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.
A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need.
A friend loves at all times. A brother is born to share troubles.
A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity.
At all times, doth a friend love, and, a brother for distress, must be born.
He that is a friend loveth at all times: and a brother is proved in distress.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.
Friends love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble.
A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 18:24, Proverbs 19:7, Ruth 1:16, 1 Samuel 18:3, 1 Samuel 19:2, 1 Samuel 20:17, 1 Samuel 23:16, 2 Samuel 1:26, 2 Samuel 9:1-13, Esther 4:14, John 15:13, John 15:14, Hebrews 2:11
Reciprocal: Genesis 14:14 - his brother Judges 11:7 - Did not ye hate Ruth 1:14 - but Ruth Ruth 2:20 - hath not 2 Samuel 15:21 - surely 2 Samuel 16:17 - why wentest Job 2:11 - friends Job 6:14 - To him Psalms 119:20 - at all times Proverbs 27:10 - better
Cross-References
Avram fell on his face, and God continued speaking with him:
God answered, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you are to call him Yitz'chak [laughter]. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
But as for Yishma‘el, I have heard you. I have blessed him. I will make him fruitful and give him many descendants. He will father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "I am old, and so is my lord; am I to have pleasure again?"
Sarah said, "God has given me good reason to laugh; now everyone who hears about it will laugh with me."
(iii) Fire came forth from the presence of Adonai , consuming the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before the entire assembled community of the people of Isra'el.
They fell on their faces and said, "Oh God, God of the spirits of all humankind, if one person sins, are you going to be angry with the entire assembly?"
Now Korach the son of Yitz'har, the son of K'hat, the son of Levi, along with Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eli'av, and On, the son of Pelet, descendants of Re'uven, took men and rebelled against Moshe. Siding with them were 250 men of Isra'el, leaders of the community, key members of the council, men of reputation. They assembled themselves against Moshe and Aharon and said to them, "You take too much on yourselves! After all, the entire community is holy, every one of them, and Adonai is among them. So why do you lift yourselves up above Adonai 's assembly?" When Moshe heard this he fell on his face. Then he said to Korach and his whole group, "In the morning, Adonai will show who are his and who is the holy person he will allow to approach him. Yes, he will bring whomever he chooses near to himself. Do this: take censers, Korach and all your group; put fire in them; and put incense in them before Adonai tomorrow. The one whom Adonai chooses will be the one who is holy! It is you, you sons of Levi, who are taking too much on yourselves!" Then Moshe said to Korach, "Listen here, you sons of Levi! Is it for you a mere trifle that the God of Isra'el has separated you from the community of Isra'el to bring you close to himself, so that you can do the work in the tabernacle of Adonai and stand before the community serving them? He has brought you close and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you. Now you want the office of cohen too! That's why you and your group have gathered together against Adonai ! After all, what is Aharon that you complain against him?" Then Moshe sent to summon Datan and Aviram, the sons of Eli'av. But they replied, "We won't come up! Is it such a mere trifle, bringing us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, that now you arrogate to yourself the role of dictator over us? (ii) You haven't at all brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, and you haven't put us in possession of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can gouge out these men's eyes and blind them? We won't come up!" Moshe was very angry and said to Adonai , "Don't accept their grain offering! I haven't taken one donkey from them, I've done nothing wrong to any of them." Moshe said to Korach, "You and your group, be there before Adonai tomorrow — you, they and Aharon. Each of you take his fire pan and put incense in it; every one of you, bring before Adonai his fire pan, 250 fire pans, you too, and Aharon — each one his fire pan." Each man took his fire pan, put fire in it, laid incense on it and stood at the entrance to the tent of meeting with Moshe and Aharon. Korach assembled all the group who were against them at the entrance to the tent of meeting. Then the glory of Adonai appeared to the whole assembly. (iii) Adonai said to Moshe and Aharon, "Separate yourselves from this assembly; I'm going to destroy them right now!" They fell on their faces and said, "Oh God, God of the spirits of all humankind, if one person sins, are you going to be angry with the entire assembly?" Adonai answered Moshe, "Tell the assembly to move away from the homes of Korach, Datan and Aviram." Moshe got up and went to Datan and Aviram, and the leaders of Isra'el followed him. There he said to the assembly, "Leave the tents of these wicked men! Don't touch anything that belongs to them, or you may be swept away in all their sins." So they moved away from all around the area where Korach, Datan and Aviram lived. Then Datan and Aviram came out and stood at the entrance to their tents with their wives, sons and little ones. Moshe said, "Here is how you will know that Adonai has sent me to do all these things and that I haven't done them out of my own ambition: if these men die a natural death like other people, only sharing the fate common to all humanity, then Adonai has not sent me. But if Adonai does something new — if the ground opens up and swallows them with everything they own, and they go down alive to Sh'ol — then you will understand that these men have had contempt for Adonai ." The moment he finished speaking, the ground under them split apart — the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all the people who had sided with Korach and everything they owned. So they and everything they owned went down alive into Sh'ol, the earth closed over them and their existence in the community ceased. All Isra'el around them fled at their shrieks, shouting, "The earth might swallow us too!" Then fire came out from Adonai and destroyed the 250 men who had offered the incense.
Then I fell down before Adonai , as I had the first time, for forty days and nights, during which time I neither ate food nor drank water, all because of the sin you committed by doing what was evil in the sight of Adonai and thus provoking him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A friend loveth at all times,.... A true, hearty, faithful friend, loves in times of adversity as well as in times of prosperity: there are many that are friends to persons, while they are in affluent circumstances; but when there is a change in their condition, and they are stripped of all riches and substance; than their friends forsake them, and stand at a distance from them; as was the case of Job,
Job 19:14; it is a very rare thing to find a friend that is a constant lover, such an one as here described;
and a brother is born for adversity; for a time of adversity, as Jarchi: he is born into the world for this purpose; to sympathize with his brother in distress, to relieve him, comfort and support him; and if he does not do this, when it is in his power to do it, he does not answer the end of his being born into the world. The Jewish writers understand this as showing the difference between a friend and a brother: a cordial friend loves at all times, prosperous and adverse; but a "brother [loves when] adversity [is] born" s, or is, so Aben Ezra; he loves when he is forced to it; when the distress of his brother, who is his flesh and bone, as Gersom observes, obliges him to it: but this may be understood of the same person who is the friend; he is a brother, and acts the part of one in a time of adversity, for which he is born and brought into the world; it being so ordered by divine Providence, that a man should have a friend born against the time he stands in need of him t. To no one person can all this be applied with so much truth and exactness as to our Lord Jesus Christ; he is a "friend", not of angels only, but of men; more especially of his church and people; of sinful men, of publicans and sinners; as appears by his calling them to repentance, by his receiving them, and by his coming into the world to save them: he "loves" them, and loves them constantly; he loved them before time; so early were they on his heart and in his book of life; so early was he the surety of them, and the covenant of grace made with him; and their persons and grace put into his hands, which he took the care of: he loved them in time, and before time began with them; thus they were preserved in him, when they fell in Adam; were redeemed by his precious blood, when as yet they were not in being, at least many of them: he loves them as soon as time begins with them, as soon as born; though impure by their first birth, transgressors from the womb, enemies and enmity itself unto him; he waits to be gracious to them, and sends his Gospel and his Spirit to find them out and call them: and he continues to love them after conversion; in times of backsliding; in times of desertion; in times of temptation, and in times of affliction: he loves them indeed to the end of time, and to all eternity; nor is there a moment of time to be fixed upon, in which he does not love them. And he is a "brother" to his people; through his incarnation, he is a partaker of the same flesh and blood with them; and through their adoption, they having one and the same Father; nor is he ashamed to own the relation; and he has all the freedom, affection, compassion, and condescension, of a brother in him: and now he is a brother "born"; see Isaiah 9:6; born of a woman, a virgin, at Bethlehem, in the fulness of time, for and on the behalf of his people; even "for adversity"; to bear and endure adversity himself, which he did, by coming into a state of meanness and poverty; through the reproaches and persecutions of men, the temptations of Satan, the ill usage of his own disciples, the desertion of his father, the strokes of justice, and the sufferings of death; also for the adversity of his people, to sympathize with them, bear them up under it, and deliver them out of it. The ancient Jews had a notion that this Scripture has some respect to the Messiah; for, to show that the Messiah, being God, would by his incarnation become a brother to men, they cite this passage of Scripture as a testimony of it u.
s ואח לצרה יולד "et fater diligit quando tribulatio nascitur", Munster; so some in Vatablus. t "Nihil homini amico est opportuno amicus", Plauti Epidicus, Act. 3. Sc. 3. v. 43. u Mechilta spud Galatin. Cathol. Ver. Arcan. l. 3. c. 28.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Some take the proverb to describe (as in Proverbs 18:24) the “friend that sticketh closer than a brother:” and render: At all times, a friend loveth, but in adversity he is born (i. e., becomes) a brother.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 17:17. A friend loveth at all times — Equally in adversity as in prosperity. And a brother, according to the ties and interests of consanguinity, is born to support and comfort a brother in distress.
