Proverbs 27:11
Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, || And I return a word [to] my reproacher.
Literal Standard Version
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 has seen the evil, he is hidden, || The simple have passed on, they are punished.
Cross References
Psalms 119:42And I answer him who is reproaching me a word, || For I have trusted in Your word.
Proverbs 10:1Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causes a father to rejoice, || And a foolish son [is] an affliction to his mother.
Proverbs 23:15My son, if your heart has been wise, || My heart rejoices, even mine,
Proverbs 23:25Your father and your mother rejoice, || Indeed, she bearing you is joyful.
Ecclesiastes 2:18And I have hated all my labor that I labor at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.
Philemon 1:19I, Paul, wrote with my hand, I will repay; besides, that I may not say that you also owe to me yourself.
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 →