Friends are a great gift of God, your family is (or should be) there when you need them, however, Proverbs 18:24 tells us "there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother." We need wisdom for gaining the right kind of friends and wisdom to be a good friend to others. Jesus is the ultimate friend we desperately need, Jesus himself, amazingly calls us his own friends (I have called you friends, John 15:15).