Proverbs 27:10
Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; and when you are in distress go not into your brother's house: better is a friend that is near than a brother living far off.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
In Context
9The heart delights in ointments and wines and perfumes: but the soul is broken by calamities.
11Son, be wise, that your heart may rejoice; and remove you from yourself reproachful words.
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:28For all the house of my father were but as dead men before my lord the king; yet you have set your servant amongst them that eat at your table: and what right have I any longer even to cry to the king?
1 Kings 12:6And the king referred the matter to the elders, who stood before Solomon his father while he was yet living, saying, How do you⌃ advise + 12:6 Gr. and I should answer a word, etc. that I should answer this people?
2 Chronicles 10:8But he forsook the advice of the old men, who took counsel with him, and he took counsel with the young men who had been brought up with him, who stood before him.
Job 6:21But you⌃ also have come to me without pity; so that beholding my wound you⌃ are afraid.
Isaiah 41:8But you, Israel, are my servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraam, whom I have loved:
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 →