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Proverbs 24:10

If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Doubting;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Fainting;   Strength;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Day;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Jordan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Tribulation;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alliteration and Kindred Figures;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for August 20;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If you do nothing in a difficult time,your strength is limited.
Hebrew Names Version
If you falter in the time of trouble, Your strength is small.
King James Version
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
English Standard Version
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
New American Standard Bible
If you show yourself lacking courage on the day of distress, Your strength is meager.
New Century Version
If you give up when trouble comes, it shows that you are weak.
Amplified Bible
If you are slack (careless) in the day of distress, Your strength is limited.
World English Bible
If you falter in the time of trouble, Your strength is small.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If thou bee faint in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small.
Legacy Standard Bible
If you are slack in the day of trouble,Your strength is in trouble.
Contemporary English Version

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Don't give up and be helpless in times of trouble.
Complete Jewish Bible
If you slack off on a day of distress, your strength is small indeed.
Darby Translation
[If] thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.
Easy-to-Read Version
If you are weak in times of trouble, that is real weakness.
George Lamsa Translation
The wicked shall be driven away by evil in the day of affliction.
Good News Translation

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If you are weak in a crisis, you are weak indeed.
Lexham English Bible
If you faint on the day of adversity, little is your strength.
Literal Translation
Your strength is small if you faint in the day of distress,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf thou be ouersene & necliget in tyme of nede, the is thy stregth but small.
American Standard Version
If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.
Bible in Basic English
If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small indeed.
King James Version (1611)
If thou faint in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If thou be faynt in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He shall be defiled in the evil day, and in the day of affliction, until he be utterly consumed.
English Revised Version
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If thou that hast slide, dispeirist in the dai of angwisch, thi strengthe schal be maad lesse.
Update Bible Version
If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small.
Webster's Bible Translation
[If] thou faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.
New English Translation
If you faint in the day of trouble, your strength is small!
New King James Version
If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small.
New Living Translation
If you fail under pressure, your strength is too small.
New Life Bible
If you are weak in the day of trouble, your strength is small.
New Revised Standard
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength being small;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou hast been slothful in the day of straitness, Strait, is thy strength.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou lose hope, being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished.
Revised Standard Version
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,
THE MESSAGE

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If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn't much to you in the first place.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
If you are slack in the day of distress, Your strength is limited.

Contextual Overview

10If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou: 1 Samuel 27:1, Job 4:5, Isaiah 40:28-31, John 4:8, 2 Corinthians 4:1, Ephesians 3:13, Hebrews 12:3-5, Revelation 2:3, Revelation 2:13

small: Heb. narrow

Reciprocal: Esther 4:13 - Think not Psalms 49:5 - days Proverbs 3:11 - neither Jeremiah 12:5 - thou hast Jeremiah 45:3 - I fainted Colossians 1:11 - unto

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
Genesis 24:2
So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, "Place your hand under my thigh,
Genesis 24:4
but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac."
Genesis 24:5
The servant asked him, "What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"
Genesis 24:6
Abraham replied, "Make sure that you do not take my son back there.
Genesis 24:8
And if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there."
Genesis 24:9
So the servant placed his hand under his master Abraham's thigh and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
Genesis 24:10
Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor's hometown in Mesopotamia.
Genesis 24:22
And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
Genesis 24:23
"Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[If] thou faint in the day of adversity,.... When under bodily afflictions, stripping providences, reduced to great straits and wants; or under the violent persecutions of men, which is sometimes the case of the people of God; whose times are in his hands, times of adversity, as well as prosperity; and which are appointed by him, when they shall come, and how long they shall last; which is but for a short time, it is but a "day", and yet they are apt to "faint" under them, through the number and continuance of their afflictions; and especially when they apprehend them to be in wrath; when they have a sense of their sins at such a time, and no view of pardon; when they are under the hidings of God's face, their prayers do not seem to be heard, and salvation and deliverance do not come so soon as they expected; which, notwithstanding, shows the truth of what is next observed;

thy strength [is] small; such who are truly gracious are not indeed at such times wholly without strength; they are in some measure helped to bear up; but yet their sinkings and faintings show that they have but little strength: they have some faith that does not entirely fail, Christ praying for it; yet they are but of little faith; they have but a small degree of Christian fortitude and courage; there is a want of manliness in them; they act the part of children and babes in Christ; they do not quit themselves like men, and much less endure hardness, as good soldiers of Christ, as they should; they are, Ephraim like, without a heart, a courageous one, Hosea 7:1. Some think the words have reference to what goes before, and the sense to be this, "if thou art remiss" g; that is, if thou art careless and negligent in time of health and prosperity, in getting wisdom, as thinking it too high for thee, Proverbs 24:7; "in the day of adversity thy strength [will be] small"; thou wilt not have that to support thee which otherwise thou wouldest have had. Aben Ezra connects the sense with the following, "if thou art remiss", in helping and delivering thy friend in affliction,

Proverbs 24:11; "in the day of adversity", or "of straitness, thy strength shall be strait"; thou shalt be left in thy distress and difficulties, and have none to help thee.

g התרפית "si remiseris", Tigurine version; "remissus fuisti", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus; "si remisse te geras", Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Michaelis.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 24:10. If thou faint — If thou give way to discouragement and despair in the day of adversity - time of trial or temptation.

Thy strength is small. — צר כחכה tsar cochachah, thy strength is contracted. So the old MS. Bible excellently: Gif sliden thou dispeire, in the dai of anguyfs, schal be made litil thy strengthe. In times of trial we should endeavour to be doubly courageous; when a man loses his courage, his strength avails him nothing.


 
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