Good news from a distant land
is like cold water to a parched throat.

As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake [them], and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.

An excellent woman [one who is spiritual, capable, intelligent, and virtuous], who is he who can find her?
Her value is more precious than jewels and her worth is far above rubies or pearls.

Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.

Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:

The LORD is far from the wicked: but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursues them with words, yet they are nothing to him.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that does keep his soul shall be far from them.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:

The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.

She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.