Proverbs 27:11
My sonne be wyse, and make me a glad heart, that I may make aunswere vnto my rebukers.
Bible (Bishops')
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 wyse man seing the plague, wyll hide hym selfe: as for fooles they go on styll and suffer harme.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1A wyse sonne maketh a glad father: but an vndiscrete sonne is an heauinesse vnto his mother.
Proverbs 23:15My sonne if thy heart receaue wysdome, my heart also shall reioyce:
Proverbs 23:25[Do so that] thy father and mother may be glad of thee, and that she that bare thee may reioyce.
Ecclesiastes 2:18Yea I was weery of my labour which I had taken vnder the sunne, because I shoulde be fayne to leaue them vnto another man that commeth after me:
Philemon 1:19I Paul haue written it with myne owne hande, I wyll recompence it: Albeit, I do not say to thee, howe that thou owest vnto me euen thyne owne selfe.
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 →