Mishle 27:9-11

Orthodox Jewish Bible

⁹ Shemen and ketoret rejoice the lev; so doth the sweet discourse of a re’a (friend) from an atzat nefesh (a counselling of the soul).

¹⁰ Thine own re’a (friend), and the re’a avicha, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s bais in the yom of thy calamity; for better is a shakhen (neighbor) that is near than a brother far off.

¹¹ Beni (my son), be chacham, and make my lev glad, that I may answer my accusers.