Proverbs 27:11
Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me.
Darby Translation
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] seeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; the simple pass on, [and] are punished.
Cross References
Psalms 119:42So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me; for I confide in thy word.
Proverbs 10:1The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
Proverbs 23:15My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;
Proverbs 23:25let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.
Ecclesiastes 2:18And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Philemon 1:19*I* Paul have written [it] with mine own hand; *I* will repay [it]: that I say not to thee that thou owest even thine own self also 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 →