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Proverbs 17:17
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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 a difficult time.
A friend loves 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, And a brother is born for adversity.
A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.
A friend is always a friend, and relatives are born to share our troubles.
A friend shows his friendship at all times — it is for adversity that [such] a brother is born.
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.
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.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
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.
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.
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; but a brother is born for adversity.
Friends always show their love. What are relatives for if not to share trouble?
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.
He is a frende that alway loueth, and in aduersitie a man shall knowe who is his brother.
A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity.
The 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.
At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.
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 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 is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.
He is a frende that allwaye loueth, and in aduersite a man shal knowe who is his brother.
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.
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
Then Abram bowed facedown on the ground. God said to him,
God said, "No, Sarah your wife will have a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him to be an agreement that continues forever with all his descendants.
"As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him and give him many descendants. And I will cause their numbers to grow greatly. He will be the father of twelve great leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.
she laughed to herself, "My husband and I are too old to have a baby."
And Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.
Fire came out from the Lord and burned up the burnt offering and fat on the altar. When the people saw this, they shouted with joy and bowed facedown on the ground.
Then Moses and Aaron bowed facedown in front of all the Israelites gathered there.
But Moses and Aaron bowed facedown and cried out, "God, you are the God over the spirits of all people. Please don't be angry with this whole group. Only one man has really sinned."
"Move away from these people so I can destroy them quickly." So Moses and Aaron bowed facedown.
Then I again bowed facedown on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat bread or drink water. You had sinned by doing what the Lord said was evil, and you made him angry.
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.
