Proverbs 24:10
If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!
BSB
ASV
If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.
KJV
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
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 endeavor to be doubly courageous; when a man loses his courage, his strength avails him nothing.
Literally, "If thou fail in the day of straits (adversity), strait (or, small) is thy strength," which is then truly tested. Neglect of known duty is sin (Jas 4:17). ready--literally, "bowing down" to be slain--that is, unjustly.
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Ephesians 3:13So I ask you not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
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But as for you, brothers, do not grow weary in well-doing.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.
If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...
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1 Samuel 27:1David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the…
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Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?
“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
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Jeremiah 51:46Do 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…
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“So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.