Proverbs 27:5-11

Jubilee Bible 2000

⁵ ¶ Open rebuke is better than secret love.

⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

⁷ ¶ The full soul loathes a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

⁸ ¶ As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man that wanders from his place.

⁹ ¶ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, so does the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

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.