Proverbs 27:11
My son, study wisdom, and rejoice my heart, so that you may be able to respond to the one who reproaches.
Catholic Public Domain 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
12The discerning man, seeing evil, hides himself. The little ones, continuing on, sustain losses.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1A wise son gladdens the father. Yet truly, a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
Proverbs 23:15My son, if your soul will become wise, my heart will be glad with you.
Proverbs 23:25Let your father and your mother be joyful, and may she who conceived you exult.
Ecclesiastes 2:18Again, I detested all my efforts, by which I had earnestly labored under the sun, to be taken up by an heir after me,
Philemon 1:19I, Paul, have written this with my own hand: I will repay. And I need not tell you, that you are also in debt yourself, to me.
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 →