Proverbs 27:10
Do not forsake your own friend and the friend of your father, || And do not enter the house of your brother in a day of your calamity, || A near neighbor [is] better than a brother far off.
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In Context
11Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, || And I return a word [to] my reproacher.
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:28for all the house of my father have been nothing except men of death before my lord the king, and you set your servant among those eating at your table, and what right do I have anymore—even to cry anymore to the king?”
1 Kings 12:6And King Rehoboam consults with the elderly who have been standing in the presence of his father Solomon, in his being alive, saying, “How are you counseling to answer this people?”
2 Chronicles 10:8And he forsakes the counsel of the aged men that they counseled him, and consults with the boys who have grown up with him, those standing before him,
Job 6:21Surely now you have become the same! You see a downfall, and are afraid.
Proverbs 18:24A man with friends—to show himself friendly, || And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!
Isaiah 41:8And you, O Israel, My servant, || Jacob, whom I have chosen, || Seed of Abraham, My lover,
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 →