Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength! New Living Translation If you fail under pressure, your strength is too small. English Standard Version If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Berean Standard Bible If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength! King James Bible If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. New King James 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. NASB 1995 If you are slack in the day of distress, Your strength is limited. NASB 1977 If you are slack in the day of distress, Your strength is limited. Legacy Standard Bible If you are slack in the day of trouble, Your strength is in trouble. Amplified Bible If you are slack (careless) in the day of distress, Your strength is limited. Christian Standard Bible If you do nothing in a difficult time, your strength is limited. Holman Christian Standard Bible If you do nothing in a difficult time, your strength is limited. American Standard Version If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Affliction will drive the evil in the day of distress. Brenton Septuagint Translation He shall be defiled in the evil day, and in the day of affliction, until he be utterly consumed. Contemporary English Version Don't give up and be helpless in times of trouble. Douay-Rheims Bible If thou lose hope being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished. English Revised Version If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. GOD'S WORD® Translation If you faint in a crisis, you are weak. Good News Translation If you are weak in a crisis, you are weak indeed. International Standard Version If you grow weary when times are troubled, your strength is limited. JPS Tanakh 1917 If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small indeed. Literal Standard Version You have showed yourself weak in a day of adversity, | Your power is restricted, Majority Standard Bible If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength! New American Bible Did you fail in a day of adversity, did your strength fall short? NET Bible If you faint in the day of trouble, your strength is small! New Revised Standard Version If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength being small; New Heart English Bible If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small. Webster's Bible Translation If thou faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. World English Bible If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small. Young's Literal Translation Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Do not Envy…9A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men. 10If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength! 11Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.… Cross References Hebrews 12:3 Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Deuteronomy 20:8 Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, "Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own." Job 4:5 But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. Jeremiah 51:46 Do not let your heart grow faint, and do not be afraid when the rumor is heard in the land; for a rumor will come one year--and then another the next year--of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler. Treasury of Scripture If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. thou 1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand. Job 4:5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. Isaiah 40:28-31 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding… small Jump to Previous Adversity Courage Distress Faint Faintest Falter Indeed Limited Power Shewed Slack Small Straitened Strength Thyself Time Times Trouble Way WeakJump to Next Adversity Courage Distress Faint Faintest Falter Indeed Limited Power Shewed Slack Small Straitened Strength Thyself Time Times Trouble Way WeakProverbs 24 1. Precepts and Warnings(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.Verse 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, Hebrew If you falterהִ֭תְרַפִּיתָ (hiṯ·rap·pî·ṯā) Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 7503: Sink, relax in the day בְּי֥וֹם (bə·yō·wm) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3117: A day of distress, צָרָ֗ה (ṣā·rāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 6869: Tightness, a female rival how small צַ֣ר (ṣar) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 6862: Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent [is] your strength! כֹּחֶֽכָה׃ (kō·ḥe·ḵāh) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species) Links Proverbs 24:10 NIVProverbs 24:10 NLT Proverbs 24:10 ESV Proverbs 24:10 NASB Proverbs 24:10 KJV Proverbs 24:10 BibleApps.com Proverbs 24:10 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 24:10 Chinese Bible Proverbs 24:10 French Bible Proverbs 24:10 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 24:10 If you falter in the time (Prov. Pro Pr) |