I will make answer to you and to your friends:
And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.
And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.
And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:
Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.
You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.
Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountains with my friends, weeping for my sad fate.
And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mountains, weeping for her sad fate.
And he took thirty friends, and they were with him.
She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.
And I say to you, my friends, Have no fear of those who may put the body to death, and are able to do no more than that.
And he said to the master of the house, When you give a feast, do not send for your friends and your brothers and your family or your neighbours who have wealth, for they may give a feast for you, and so you will get a reward.
But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends:
And when he gets back to his house, he sends for his neighbours and friends, saying to them, Be glad with me, for I have got back my sheep which had gone away.
And when she has it again, she gets her friends and neighbours together, saying, Be glad with me, for I have got back the bit of silver which had gone from me.
And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.
And that day Herod and Pilate became friends with one another, for before they had been against one another.
And all his friends and the women who came with him from Galilee, were waiting at a distance, watching these things.
And in the belief that he was with some of their number, they went a day's journey; and after looking for him among their relations and friends,
And Jesus said, Are you able to make the friends of the newly-married man go without food when he is with them?
And they made signs to their friends in the other boat to come to their help. And they came, and the two boats were so full that they were going down.
And Jesus went with them. And when he was not far from the house, the man sent friends to him, saying, Lord, do not give yourself trouble: for I am not important enough for you to come into my house:
And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.
And when his friends had news of it, they went out to get him, saying, He is off his head.
And he would not let him, but said to him, Go to your house, to your friends, and give them news of the great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.
Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, the friends of the bride, who took their lights, and went out with the purpose of meeting the husband.
And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.
The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.
A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.
He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.
There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.
Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.
All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ...
Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:
Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
Because of my brothers and friends, I will now say, Let peace be with you.
Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.
My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.
For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;
Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.
You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?
For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;
Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?
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