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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. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

Proverbs 27:10 WEB

Proverbs 27:10 in the King James Version

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.

Context

9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

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. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

11 Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

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