24 A man of many companions may come to ruin,
but zthere is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
10 Do not forsake your friend and hyour father’s friend,
and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity.
iBetter is a neighbor who is near
than a brother who is far away.
16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. mYour people shall be my people, and your God my God.
14 “He who ewithholds1 kindness from a ffriend
forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
