Proverbs 27:10
Do not dismiss your friend or your father’s friend. And do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your affliction. A close neighbor is better than a distant brother.
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2 Samuel 19:28For my father’s house was deserving of nothing but death before my lord the king. Yet you have placed me, your servant, among the guests of your table. Therefore, what just complaint might I have? Or what else can I cry out to the king?”
1 Kings 12:6king Rehoboam took counsel with the elders who had assisted before his father Solomon while he was still living. And he said, “What counsel do you give to me, so that I may respond to this people?”
2 Chronicles 10:8But he set aside the counsel of the elders, and he began to have discussion with the youth, who had been raised with him and who were among his companions.
Job 6:21Now you have arrived, and merely by seeing my affliction, you are afraid.
Proverbs 18:24A man amiable to society shall be more friendly than a brother.
Isaiah 41:8But you, O Israel, are my servant, O Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of my friend Abraham.
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 →