Quotes About Friendship

If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,

and he burned with anger against Jobís three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

Jobís friends are dismayed, with no more to say; words have escaped them.

After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.

who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend,

I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.

Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.

But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend.

My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.

You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.

You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.

I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.

For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”

A song of ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!

Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—