Proverbs 27:10
Do not forsake your friend and your friend's father, 1 and do not go to your brother's house on the day of your calamity. 1 Better is a neighbor who is nearby than a brother who is far away. 1
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2 Samuel 19:28For all my father's house were dead men before my master the king, but you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I that I should still cry any more to the king?”
1 Kings 12:6King Rehoboam consulted with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he was alive, and he said, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
2 Chronicles 10:8But Rehoboam ignored the advice of the old men that they had given him, and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
Job 6:21For now you friends are nothing to me; 1 you see my dreadful situation and are afraid. 1
Proverbs 18:24The one who claims many friends is brought to ruin by them, 1 but there is a friend who comes closer than a brother.
Isaiah 41:8But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, 1 the offspring of Abraham my friend, 1
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 →