Proverbs 27:11
Son, be wise, that your heart may rejoice; and remove you from yourself reproachful words.
LXX2012 (US English)
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 wise man, when evils are approaching, hides himself; but fools pass on, and will be punished.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1A wise son makes his father glad: but a foolish son is a grief to his mother.
Proverbs 23:15Son, if your heart be wise, you shall also gladden my heart;
Proverbs 23:25Let your father and your mother rejoice over you, and let her that bore you be glad.
Ecclesiastes 2:18And I hated the whole of my labor which I took under the sun; because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
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 →