OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 6:9

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9

And there is a friend who turns into an enemy. He will discover strife to your reproach.

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Verse 9. Reproaches. Disclosing all your imperfections. Calmet.—“The closest alliances, being broken, produce the most bitter enmities.” Pliny, xxxvii. 4.

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