Proverbs 25:19 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 25:19

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

KJV

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ASV

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Islikea broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

WEB

Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.

YLT

A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, Is the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.

DBT

A broken tooth, and a tottering foot, is confidence in an unfaithful [man] in the day of trouble.

About this book

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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8 verses on the floor

Isaiah 36:6
Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
Ezekiel 29:6–7
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
Job 6:14–20
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Ezekiel 29:7
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
Acts 15:38
But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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