diff --git a/lib/tokenize.cpp b/lib/tokenize.cpp
index 7c15be961bc..b0c02fa4b01 100644
--- a/lib/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/lib/tokenize.cpp
@@ -3790,7 +3790,7 @@ void Tokenizer::simplifyParenthesizedLibraryFunctions()
         if (!Token::simpleMatch(tok, ") ("))
             continue;
         Token *rpar = tok, *lpar = tok->link();
-        if (!lpar || (Token::Match(lpar->previous(), "%name%") && !lpar->previous()->isKeyword()))
+        if (!lpar || (Token::Match(lpar->previous(), "%name%") && !Token::Match(lpar->previous(), "return|delete|throw")))
             continue;
         const Token *ftok = rpar->previous();
         if (mSettings.library.isNotLibraryFunction(ftok))
diff --git a/test/testtokenize.cpp b/test/testtokenize.cpp
index eff4a8d44f2..ee38b2a1dce 100644
--- a/test/testtokenize.cpp
+++ b/test/testtokenize.cpp
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ class TestTokenizer : public TestFixture {
         TEST_CASE(removeParentheses27);
         TEST_CASE(removeParentheses28);      // #12164 - don't remove parentheses in '(expr1) ? (expr2) : (expr3);'
         TEST_CASE(removeParantheses29);      // #13735
+        TEST_CASE(removeParentheses30);
 
         TEST_CASE(tokenize_double);
         TEST_CASE(tokenize_strings);
@@ -2192,6 +2193,19 @@ class TestTokenizer : public TestFixture {
         ASSERT_EQUALS(exp, tokenizeAndStringify(code));
     }
 
+    void removeParentheses30() {
+        static char code[] = "void f (Node *node) {\n"
+                             "    if (node->data && (node->provider)->free)\n"
+                             "        (node->provider)->free (node);\n"
+                             "}\n";
+        static const char exp[] = "void f ( Node * node ) {\n"
+                                  "if ( node . data && ( node . provider ) . free ) {\n"
+                                  "node . provider . free ( node ) ; }\n"
+                                  "}";
+        ASSERT_EQUALS(exp, tokenizeAndStringify(code));
+        (void) errout_str();
+    }
+
     void tokenize_double() {
         const char code[] = "void f() {\n"
                             "    double a = 4.2;\n"