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Proverbs 24:10
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Don't give up and be helpless in times of trouble.Bible Study Resources
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If you do nothing in a difficult time,your strength is limited.
If you falter in the time of trouble, Your strength is small.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
If you show yourself lacking courage on the day of distress, Your strength is meager.
If you give up when trouble comes, it shows that you are weak.
If you are slack (careless) in the day of distress, Your strength is limited.
If you falter in the time of trouble, Your strength is small.
If thou bee faint in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small.
If you are slack in the day of trouble,Your strength is in trouble.
If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!
If you slack off on a day of distress, your strength is small indeed.
[If] thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.
If you are weak in times of trouble, that is real weakness.
The wicked shall be driven away by evil in the day of affliction.
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If you are weak in a crisis, you are weak indeed.If you faint on the day of adversity, little is your strength.
Your strength is small if you faint in the day of distress,
Yf thou be ouersene & necliget in tyme of nede, the is thy stregth but small.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.
If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small indeed.
If thou faint in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small:
If thou be faynt in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small.
He shall be defiled in the evil day, and in the day of affliction, until he be utterly consumed.
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
If thou that hast slide, dispeirist in the dai of angwisch, thi strengthe schal be maad lesse.
If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small.
[If] thou faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.
If you faint in the day of trouble, your strength is small!
If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small.
If you fail under pressure, your strength is too small.
If you are weak in the day of trouble, your strength is small.
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength being small;
Thou hast been slothful in the day of straitness, Strait, is thy strength.
If thou lose hope, being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished.
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,
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If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn't much to you in the first place.If you are slack in the day of distress, Your strength is limited.
Contextual Overview
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Don't give up and be helpless in times of trouble.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
Terah decided to move from Ur to the land of Canaan. He took along Abram and Sarai and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran. But when they came to the city of Haran, they decided to settle there instead.
One day, Abraham called in his most trusted servant and said to him, "Solemnly promise me
Instead, go back to the land where I was born and find a wife for him from among my relatives."
But the servant asked, "What if the young woman I choose refuses to leave home and come here with me? Should I send Isaac there to look for a wife?"
"No!" Abraham answered. "Don't ever do that, no matter what.
If the woman refuses to come along, you don't have to keep this promise. But don't ever take my son back there."
So the servant gave Abraham his word that he would do everything he had been told to do.
Soon after that, the servant loaded ten of Abraham's camels with valuable gifts. Then he set out for the city in northern Syria, where Abraham's brother Nahor lived.
The servant had brought along an expensive gold ring and two large gold bracelets. When Rebekah had finished bringing the water, he gave her the ring for her nose and the bracelets for her arms.
Then he said, "Please tell me who your father is. Does he have room in his house for me and my men 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.
