Proverbs Chapter 25 verse 19 Holy Bible
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Is `like' a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
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Putting one's faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot.
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A broken tooth, and a tottering foot, is confidence in an unfaithful [man] in the day of trouble.
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Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
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Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble Is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.
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A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, `Is' the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - Hebrew (see on Ver. 11), A broken tooth, and a foot out of joint - confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble. A faithless man is as little to be relied on in a time of need as a loose or broken tooth, and a foot unsteady or actually dislocated. You cannot bite on the one, you cannot walk on the other; so the perfidious man fails you when most wanted. Septuagint, "The way [ὁδὸς, Vatican, is probably a clerical error for ὀδοὺς, al.] of the wicked, and the foot of the transgressor, shall perish in an evil day." A Bengal maxim runs, "A loose tooth and a feeble friend are equally bad" (Lane).