Proverbs 27:10

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Summary

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.

Own

Neither

Proverbs 19:7

Job 6:21

Obadiah 1:12

Better

General references

Luke 10:32

Bible References

Own

And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. Now he had neither washed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.

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

And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, How do ye advise to return answer to this people?

And king Joash remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, Jehovah see and require it!

But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend

Thus saith Jehovah: What injustice have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and become vain?

Neither

All the brethren of a poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him: he pursueth them with words, they are not to be found.

So now ye are nothing; ye see a terrible object and are afraid.

But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor have opened wide thy mouth in the day of distress.

Better

The friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

A man of many friends will come to ruin but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

And Jesus replying said, A certain man descended from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers, who also, having stripped him and inflicted wounds, went away leaving him in a half-dead state.

And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.

General references

and in like manner also a Levite, being at the spot, came and looked at him and passed on on the opposite side.