Proverbs 27

9 Oil  * 27:9 Ps 23:5 and incense bring joy to the heart,

and the sweetness of a friend is better than self-counsel.  * 27:9 LXX reads heart, but the soul is torn up by affliction

10 Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,  * 27:10 2Sm 10:2

and don’t go to your brother’s house

in your time of calamity;

better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.  * 27:10 Pr 17:17