Proverbs 27:10 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁰ Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend, And do not go into your brother’s house In the day of your calamity – Better is a neighbour nearby than a brother 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

2 Samuel 19:24

And Mephiḇ

2 Samuel 19:28

“For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my master the sovereign. Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your own table. Therefore what right have I still to cry out any more to the sovereign?”

2 Samuel 21:7

But the sovereign spared Mephiḇ

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus Yo’ash the sovereign did not remember the kindness which Yehoyaḏ

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 18:24

A man of many friends might come to ruin, But there is a Loving One Who sticks closer than a brother!

Proverbs 19:7

All the brothers of the poor shall hate him; How much more shall his friends go far from him! He pursues promises – they are gone!.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus said יהוה, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

Acts 23:12

And when it became day, some of the Yehuḏ

Deuteronomy 22:1

“When you see your brother’s ox or his sheep going straying away, you shall not hide yourself from them. Return them to your brother without fail.