Proverbs 27:11
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
Webster Bible
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 foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Cross References
Psalms 119:42So shall I have with which to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 23:15My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Proverbs 23:25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.
Ecclesiastes 2:18Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me.
Philemon 1:19I Paul have written it with my own hand, I will repay it : although I do not say to thee that thou owest to me even thy 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 →