Proverbs 27:10-12

Modern English Version

¹⁰ Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
    nor go into your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
    for better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far off.

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

¹² A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself,
    but the simple pass on and are punished.