Proverbs 27:11
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproaches me.
Updated King James Version
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 forsees the evil, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Cross References
Psalms 119:42So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproaches me: for I trust in your word.
Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 23:15My son, if yours heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Proverbs 23:25Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bare you shall rejoice.
Ecclesiastes 2:18Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Philemon 1:19I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: although it be I do not say to you how you owe unto me even yours own self besides.
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 →