OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 37:5

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There is a companion who for the belly’s sake labors with his friend, yet in the face of battle will carry his buckler.

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Verse 5. Will. Grotius suspects that not is wanting. Yet, if a false friend take up arms, it will only be ( Calmet.) for his own belly. Menochius.—Not is ill-omitted in the Comp. edit. in the last part of the following verse.

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