Proverbs 27:10

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

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WEBBE

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbour who is near is better than a distant brother.

BSB

Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

KJV

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.

ASV

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 neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

BBE

Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.

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רֵעֲךָ re·'a·kha friend your H7453 וְרֵעַ ve·re·'eh and [the] neighbor of H7453 אָבִיךָ 'a·vi·kha father your H1 אַל־ 'al- may not H408 תַּעֲזֹב ta·'a·zo you forsake H5800 וּבֵית u·veit and [the] house of H1004 אָחִיךָ 'a·chi·kha brother your H251 אַל־ 'al- may not H408 תָּבוֹא ta·vo' you go H935 בְּיוֹם be·yom on [the] day of H3117 אֵידֶךָ 'ei·de·kha calamity your H343 טוֹב tov [is] good H2896 שָׁכֵן sha·khen a neighbor H7934 קָרוֹב ka·rov near H7138 מֵאָח me·'ach more than a brother H251 רָחוֹק ra·chok far away H7350

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 9–10

Depend not for relief upon a kinsman, merely for kindred's sake; apply to those who are at hand, and will help in need. But there is a Friend that sticketh closer than a brother, and let us place entire confidence in him.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.