Contradictions Catalog of Proverbs 18:24
Proverbs 18:24 contradicts following 14 verses in the Bible. Check out Contradictions and Paradoxes of Proverbs 18:24 for quick understanding.
Proverbs 18:24: A man [that hath] friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother.
| # | Contradicting Verse | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Job 2:11 | Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. |
| 2. | Job 6:15 | My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, [and] as the stream of brooks they pass away; |
| 3. | Job 16:20 | My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God. [scorn me: Heb. are my scorners] |
| 4. | Job 19:13 | He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. |
| 5. | Job 19:14 | My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. |
| 6. | Job 19:19 | All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. [my...: Heb. the men of my secret] |
| 7. | Psalms 38:11 | My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. [sore: Heb. stroke] [my kinsmen: or, my neighbours] |
| 8. | Psalms 41:9 | Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me. [mine...: Heb. the man of my peace] [lifted...: Heb. magnified] |
| 9. | Psalms 88:8 | Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth. |
| 10. | Proverbs 17:17 | A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. |
| 11. | Proverbs 26:17 | He that passeth by, [and] meddleth with strife [belonging] not to him, [is like] one that taketh a dog by the ears. [meddleth: or, is enraged] |
| 12. | Proverbs 27:6 | Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful. [deceitful: or, earnest, or, frequent] |
| 13. | Proverbs 27:10 | Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: [for] better [is] a neighbour [that is] near than a brother far off. |
| 14. | John 15:13 | Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. |
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