Proverbs 27:10
Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
9Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:28For all my father's family were only dead men before my lord the king: and still you put your servant among those whose place is at the king's table. What right then have I to say anything more to the king?
1 Kings 12:6Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?
2 Chronicles 10:8But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, but went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him.
Job 6:21So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.
Proverbs 18:24There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.
Isaiah 41:8But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, 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 →