Proverbs 17:17
Have you a friend for every time, and let brethren be useful in distress; for on this account are they born.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
In Context
Cross References
Ruth 1:16And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave you, or to return from following you; for wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
1 Samuel 19:2And Jonathan, Saul's son, + 19:2 Gr. chose, q.d. dilexit. loved David much: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul seeks to kill you: take heed to yourself therefore to-morrow morning, and hide yourself, and dwell in secret.
1 Samuel 20:17And Jonathan swore yet again to David, because he loved the soul of him that loved him.
2 Samuel 1:26I am grieved for you, my brother Jonathan; you were very lovely to me; your love to me was wonderful beyond the love of women.
Esther 4:14For if you shall refuse to listen on this occasion, help and protection will be to the Jews from another quarter; but you and your father's house will perish: and who knows, if you have been made queen for this very occasion?
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 →