Proverbs 27:11

My child/son, cause me to be happy by becoming wise, in order that I will know how to reply to those who would criticize me about your behavior.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

In Context

10Do not neglect your friends or your parents’ friends; and at a time when you are experiencing a disaster, do not go to a relative who lives far away to request his help; someone who lives near you can help you more than relatives who live far away.

12Those who have good sense will realize that there is something dangerous ahead, and they will hide; those who do not have good sense just keep going, and later they will suffer because of doing that.

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Cross References

Psalms 119:42After you do that, I will be able to reply to those who insult me, because I trust in ◄your word/what you have promised that you would do►.

Proverbs 10:1These are more proverbs/wise sayings from Solomon: If children are wise, they cause their parents to be happy; but if children are foolish, they cause their parents to be very sad.

Proverbs 23:15My son/child, if you [SYN] become wise, I [SYN] will be very happy.

Proverbs 23:25Do what will cause your father to be glad and enable your mother also to be happy.

Ecclesiastes 2:18I also began to hate all the hard work that I had done, because when I die, everything that I have acquired will belong to the next king.

Philemon 1:19I, Paul, am now writing this in my own handwriting: I will repay you what he owes you, although I might mention to you that you owe me even more than Onesimus may owe you, because it was the result of my telling you about Christ that God saved you.

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 →

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