Proverbs 27:10
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; and go not to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:28For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more unto the king?
1 Kings 12:6And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?
2 Chronicles 10:8But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.
Job 6:21For now ye are nothing; ye see a terror, and are afraid.
Proverbs 18:24He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction: but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Isaiah 41:8But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend;
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 →