Proverbs 27:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent; do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is nearby than kindred who are far away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Your own friend and your father's friend, forsake them not; neither go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near [in spirit] than a brother who is far off [in heart].

American Standard Version (1901)

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 neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Don’t desert your friend or a friend of your family; don’t go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes. Better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Do not dismiss your friend or your father's friend. And do not enter your brother's house in the day of your affliction. A close neighbor is better than a distant brother.

Proverbs 27:10 Cross References

Proverbs 18:24

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one’s sibling.

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity.

Proverbs 19:7

If the poor are hated even by their kin, how much more are they shunned by their friends! When they call after them, they are not there.

2 Samuel 19:24

Mephibosheth grandson of Saul came down to meet the king; he had not taken care of his feet or trimmed his beard or washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he came back in safety.

2 Samuel 21:7

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

Acts 23:12

In the morning the Jews joined in a conspiracy and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord: What wrong did your ancestors find in me that they went far from me and went after worthless things and became worthless themselves?

2 Chronicles 24:22

King Joash did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him but killed his son. As he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”

2 Samuel 19:28

For all my father’s house were doomed to death before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to appeal to the king?”

Deuteronomy 22:1

“You shall not watch your neighbor’s ox or sheep straying away and ignore them; you shall take them back to their owner.