“A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.”
— Proverbs 17:17
Though same take this as contrasting or adverse parallelism, I think the majority see it as synonymous. Second line builds on the first. Friend and relative have same idea. Relatives don’t only live at difficult times, but we rely on them through difficult times (of course, unfortunately, many cannot for various reasons and this is tragic—but again—genre).
The point is not to rate your family… it may be ok to double check your friends…but wisdom literature echoes this idea often that humans cannot do life alone. And those things that tie us together in our closest circles cannot easily be broken. So necessary to survive as great pastor (Renaut) says, Planet Death.
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