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Proverbs 24:10
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If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn't much to you in the first place.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!
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Don't give up and be helpless in times of trouble.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,
If you are slack in the day of distress, Your strength is limited.
Contextual Overview
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If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn't much to you in the first place.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 took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and Sarai his daughter-in-law (his son Abram's wife) and set out with them from Ur of the Chaldees for the land of Canaan. But when they got as far as Haran, they settled down there.
Abraham spoke to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of everything he had, "Put your hand under my thigh and swear by God —God of Heaven, God of Earth—that you will not get a wife for my son from among the young women of the Canaanites here, but will go to the land of my birth and get a wife for my son Isaac."
The servant answered, "But what if the woman refuses to leave home and come with me? Do I then take your son back to your home country?"
Abraham said, "Oh no. Never. By no means are you to take my son back there. God , the God of Heaven, took me from the home of my father and from the country of my birth and spoke to me in solemn promise, ‘I'm giving this land to your descendants.' This God will send his angel ahead of you to get a wife for my son. And if the woman won't come, you are free from this oath you've sworn to me. But under no circumstances are you to take my son back there."
So the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and gave his solemn oath.
The servant took ten of his master's camels and, loaded with gifts from his master, traveled to Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor. Outside the city, he made the camels kneel at a well. It was evening, the time when the women came to draw water. He prayed, "O God , God of my master Abraham, make things go smoothly this day; treat my master Abraham well! As I stand here by the spring while the young women of the town come out to get water, let the girl to whom I say, ‘Lower your jug and give me a drink,' and who answers, ‘Drink, and let me also water your camels'—let her be the woman you have picked out for your servant Isaac. Then I'll know that you're working graciously behind the scenes for my master."
When the camels had finished drinking, the man brought out gifts, a gold nose ring weighing a little over a quarter of an ounce and two arm bracelets weighing about four ounces, and gave them to her. He asked her, "Tell me about your family? Whose daughter are you? Is there room in your father's house for us to stay the night?"
Jacob set out again on his way to the people of the east. He noticed a well out in an open field with three flocks of sheep bedded down around it. This was the common well from which the flocks were watered. The stone over the mouth of the well was huge. When all the flocks were gathered, the shepherds would roll the stone from the well and water the sheep; then they would return the stone, covering the well.
When it dawned on the Ammonites that as far as David was concerned, they stank to high heaven, they hired, at a cost of a thousand talents of silver (thirty-seven and a half tons!), chariots and horsemen from the Arameans of Naharaim, Maacah, and Zobah—thirty-two thousand chariots and drivers; plus the king of Maacah with his troops who came and set up camp at Medeba; the Ammonites, too, were mobilized from their cities and got ready for battle.
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.
