Proverbs 18:1
He that will go away from a friend, seeketh occasions, that is, feigneth causes, ( or looketh for reasons); in all time he shall be despisable.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 33:16for in what thing may we know, I and thy people, that we have found grace in thy sight, if thou shalt not go with us (or unless thou shalt go with us), (and) that we be glorified (out) of all (the) peoples that dwell on [the] earth?
Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou receivest my words, and hidest my behests with thee (or and hidest my commands with thee);
Proverbs 17:14He that letteth (out) water, is the head of strives, ( or of arguments); and before that he suffereth wrong, he forsaketh doom (or he deserteth judgement).
Proverbs 20:19Be thou not meddled with him that showeth privates, and goeth guilefully, and alargeth his lips. (Be thou not mixed in, or mingled, with him who telleth secrets, and goeth deceitfully, and flappeth his lips.)
Proverbs 26:17As he that taketh a dog by the ears; so he that passeth, and is unpatient, and is meddled with the chiding of another man. (Like he who taketh a dog by the ears, is he who passeth by, and is impatient, and is mixed in, or mingled, with the argument of another man.)
Jeremiah 15:17I sat not in the council of players, and I had glory for the face of thine hand; I sat alone, for thou filledest me with bitterness. (I sat not in the company of scorners, or of mockers, and I took no glory with them or and I made not merry with them; because of thy hand, or in obedience to thee, I sat alone; for thou hast filled me with anger.)