Proverbs 27:11
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
In Context
12A prudent man sees the evil, [and] hides himself. The simple pass on, [and] suffer for it.
Cross References
Psalms 119:42So I shall have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in thy word.
Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 23:15My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart will be glad, even mine.
Proverbs 23:25Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her who bore thee rejoice.
Ecclesiastes 2:18And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.
Philemon 1:19I Paul write with my hand, I will repay, so that I may not say to thee that thou owe me in return even thyself.
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 →