Proverbs 17:17
Friends love others all the time, and relatives are able to help us when we have troubles.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
In Context
Cross References
Ruth 1:16But Ruth replied, “No! Don’t urge me to leave you! I want to go with you. Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay. Your relatives will be my relatives, and the God you worship will be the God I worship.
1 Samuel 19:2So he warned David, “My father Saul is seeking for a way to kill you. So be careful. Tomorrow morning go and find a place to hide in the field.
1 Samuel 20:17And Jonathan requested David to repeat his solemn promise to be his close friend, because Jonathan loved David as much as he loved himself.
2 Samuel 1:26Jonathan, my dear friend, I grieve for you; you were very dear to me. You loved me in a wonderful manner; it was better than the way that a woman loves her husband and her children.
Esther 4:14If you say nothing now, someone from some other place will rescue many of us Jews, but you and your relatives will be killed. Furthermore, ◄perhaps God/who knows if God► has put you here as queen ◄for a situation like this/to prevent this from happening to us►!'” [RHQ]
Proverbs 18:24There are some people who only pretend to be friends with us, but there are some friends who are more loyal than members of our families.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:17
16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it? Two things are here spoken of with astonishment:—1. God's great goodness to foolish man, in putting a price into his hand to get wisdom, to get knowledge and grace to fit him for both worlds. We have rational souls, the means of grace, the strivings of the Spirit, access to God by prayer; we have time and opportunity. He that has a good estate (so some understand it) has advantages thereby of getting wisdom by… Read the whole commentary →