Proverbs 27:11
Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.
Proverbs 23:15My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:
Proverbs 23:25Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.
Ecclesiastes 2:18Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,
Philemon 1:19I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee, that thou owest me thy own self also.
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 →