Mishle 27:10-12

Orthodox Jewish Bible

¹⁰ Thine own re’a (friend), and the re’a avicha, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s bais in the yom of thy calamity; for better is a shakhen (neighbor) that is near than a brother far off.

¹¹ Beni (my son), be chacham, and make my lev glad, that I may answer my accusers.

¹² A prudent man foreseeth ra’ah, and hideth himself; but the naïve ones trudge on, and are punished.