Proverbs 27:11
Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart, that I may answer him that reproacheth me in a matter.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
In Context
12A prudent man, seeth calamity—he hideth himself, the simple, pass on—they suffer.
Cross References
Psalms 119:42So shall I have something to answer him that reproacheth me, That I have trusted in thy word.
Proverbs 10:1The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise son, maketh a glad father, but, a foolish son, is the grief of his mother.
Proverbs 23:15My son! if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Proverbs 23:25Rejoice shall thy father and thy mother, yea she, shall exult, who bare thee.
Ecclesiastes 2:18Therefore hated, I, all my toil, wherein I was toiling, under the sun,—in that I should leave it for the man who should come after me;
Philemon 1:19I, Paul, have written [it] with, my own, hand,—I, will repay [it]; that I may not tell thee—that, thyself, unto me, thou still owest.
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 →