Proverbs 27:10
Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
9Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the sweetness of a friend is counsel to the soul.
11Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I can answer him who taunts me.
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:28For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”
1 Kings 12:6Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
2 Chronicles 10:8But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
Job 6:21For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.
Proverbs 18:24A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
Isaiah 41:8“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
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 →