10 Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
Proverbs 27:10
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Proverbs 18:23–24
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Proverbs 17:16–18
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Sirach 22:22–24
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Proverbs 25:16–18
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Sirach 33:18–20
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Sirach 9:9–11
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Jeremiah 9:3–5
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