New International Version One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

New International Version
One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

New Living Translation
There are “friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.

English Standard Version
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Berean Standard Bible
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

King James Bible
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

New King James Version
A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

New American Standard Bible
A person of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

NASB 1995
A man of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

NASB 1977
A man of many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Legacy Standard Bible
A man of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Amplified Bible
The man of too many friends [chosen indiscriminately] will be broken in pieces and come to ruin, But there is a [true, loving] friend who [is reliable and] sticks closer than a brother.

Christian Standard Bible
One with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A man with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

American Standard Version
He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Contemporary English Version
Some friends don't help, but a true friend is closer than your own family.

English Revised Version
He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction: but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Friends can destroy one another, but a loving friend can stick closer than family.

Good News Translation
Some friendships do not last, but some friends are more loyal than brothers.

International Standard Version
A man with many friends can still be ruined, but a true friend sticks closer than a brother.

NET Bible
A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

New Heart English Bible
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Webster's Bible Translation
A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.