The interpretation timeline
Sirach 6:8 Douay-Rheims

For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble.

1 witness

Post-Reformation

c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Trouble. Such are interested friends; but true friendship is a kind and perfect agreement in all divine and human affairs.” (Cicero) (St. Augustine, contra Acad. iii.) — Religion must be the foundation.”
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.