2 Samuel 16:17

Young's Literal Translation 1898

And Absalom saith unto Hushai, ‘This thy kindness with thy friend! why hast thou not gone with thy friend?’

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And Hushai saith unto Absalom, ‘Nay, for he whom Jehovah hath chosen, and this people, even all the men of Israel, his I am, and with him I abide;

and it cometh to pass, when he hath come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king saith to him, ‘Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?’

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

A man with friends [is] to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father — thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee.