Proverbs Chapter 24 verse 10 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 24:10

If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.
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BBE Proverbs 24:10

If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.
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DARBY Proverbs 24:10

[If] thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.
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KJV Proverbs 24:10

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
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WBT Proverbs 24:10


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WEB Proverbs 24:10

If you falter in the time of trouble, Your strength is small.
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YLT Proverbs 24:10

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. The gnome seems to be unconnected with the preceding. There is a paronomasia between צָרָה (tsarah), "adversity," and צַר (tsar), "small," narrow, which is retained by Fleischer: "Si segnis fueris die angustiae, angustae sunt vires tuae." So we may say in English, "If thou faint in time of straitness, straitened is thy strength." If you fail, and succumb to anxiety or danger, instead of rising to meet the emergency, then you are but a weakling or a coward, and the strength which you seemed to possess and of which you boasted, perhaps, is nothing worth. Such a man hearkens not to the Sibyl's counsel (Virgil, 'AEneid,' 6:95) ? "Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito,Quam tua te fortuna sinet." The LXX. again varies from the received text, "He shall be polluted in an evil day, and in a day of affliction, until he fail," or "die" (ἐκλίπῃ).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) If thou faint in the day of adversity.--And prove unable to help thyself or others; an exhortation to courage (comp. Hebrews 12:12). A "more excellent way" is shown in the following verse.