Proverbs 27:10
Forsake not thine own friend, and thy father's friend. And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity. Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far off.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
9Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so [too] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:28For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king. Yet thou set thy servant among those who ate at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?
1 Kings 12:6And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye to me to return an answer to this people?
2 Chronicles 10:8But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that grew up with him, who stood before him.
Job 6:21For now ye are nothing. Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
Proverbs 18:24He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Isaiah 41:8But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:10-11
9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. 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. Here is, 1. A charge given to be faithful and constant to our friends, our old friends, to keep up an intimacy with them, and to be ready to do them all the offices that lie in our power. It is good to have a friend, a bosom-friend,… Read the whole commentary →