Better is a neighbour that is near. — See above on Proverbs 17:17; Proverbs 18:24. “Near” and “far off” — i.e., in feeling.
Related Commentaries of Proverbs 27:10
Proverbs 27:10
10 Thine 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.