Oil(A) and incense bring joy to the heart,
and the sweetness of a friend is better than self-counsel.[a]

10 Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,(B)
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.(C)

11 Be wise, my son, and bring my heart joy,(D)
so that I can answer anyone who taunts me.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 27:9 LXX reads heart, but the soul is torn up by affliction

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