Proverbs 27:10-12

Jubilee Bible 2000

¹⁰ Do not forsake thine own friend and thy father’s friend, 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.

¹¹ ¶ My son, be wise and make my heart glad that I may answer him that reproaches me.

¹² ¶ A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are hurt by it.