Proverbs 27:10 (BSB)

Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

From Proverbs 27. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 27:10

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 27:9-10: Here is, 1. A charge given to be faithful and constant to our friends, our old friends, to keep up an intimacy with them, and to be ready to do them all the offices that lie in our power. It is good to have a friend, a bosom-friend, whom we can be free with, and with whom we may communicate counsels.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 27:10: My son, be wise, and make my heart glad,.... That is, show thyself to be a wise man by thy words and actions; endeavour to get a good share of wisdom and knowledge, and make a good use of it, and that will rejoice my heart; as nothing more gladdens the heart of a parent than the wisdom and prudent behaviour of his son; see...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 27:10: Adhere to tried friends. The ties of blood may be less reliable than those of genuine friendship.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 27:10: Thy own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; 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. (d) Do not trust any worldly help in the day of your trouble.