Proverbs 27:9 (BSB)

Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the counsel of a friend is sweetness to the soul.

From Proverbs 27. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 27:9

• 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 27:9: Thine own friend, and thy father's friend forsake not,.... Who have been long tried and proved, and found faithful; these should be kept to and valued, and not new ones sought; which to do is oftentimes of bad consequence. Solomon valued his father's friend Hiram, and kept up friendship with him; but Rehoboam his son forsook the counsel of the old men his father's friends...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 27:9: rejoice the heart--the organ of perceiving what pleases the senses. sweetness . . . counsel--or, "wise counsel is also pleasing."
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 27:9: Pro 27:9 The two following proverbs have in common the catchword רע, and treat of the value of friendship: - 9 Oil and frankincense rejoice the heart; And the sweet discourse of a friend from a counselling of soul. Regarding the perfuming with dry aromas, and sprinkling with liquid aromas, as a mark of honour towards guests, and as a means of promoting joyful social...