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Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
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Verse 10. Affliction. He will be less compassionate than a tried friend.—Better, and so forth This daily experience evinces. “Those who purchase land, should consider if there be plenty of water, and a neighbour.” Pliny xviii. 5.—The Persians honour most those who live nearest to them. Herod. i. 134.
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