Proverbs 25:19 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 25:19

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Bede

Commentary on Proverbs (735)

A rotten tooth and a stumbling foot, etc. And Jeremiah says: Cursed is the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm (Jeremiah XIII). He is rightly compared to a rotten tooth and a weary foot, because he who does not know that …

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Stress is to be laid on the uselessness of the “broken tooth” and the “foot out of joint,” or tottering, rather than on the pain connected with them. The King James Version loses the emphasis and point of the Hebrew by inverting the original order, which is “a broken ... joint is confidence” etc.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
שֵׁ֣ן	shen	a tooth	H8127 →
רֹ֭עָה	Ro.'ah	broken	H7465 →
וְרֶ֣גֶל	ve.Re.gel	and a foot	H7272 →
מוּעָ֑דֶת	mu.'A.det	slipped	H4571 →
מִבְטָ֥ח	miv.Tach	[the] trust of	H4009 →
בּ֝וֹגֵ֗ד	bo.Ged	[one who] acts treacherously	H898 →
בְּי֣וֹם	be.Yom	in a day of	H3117 →
צָרָֽה׃	tza.Rah	trouble	H6869 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Isaiah 36:6
Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust…
leads to
- Ezekiel 29:6–7
  Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel.
- 2 Kings 18:21
  Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust…
- Isaiah 30:1–7
  “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
- 2 Kings 17:4
  But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years.…
- Isaiah 31:3
  But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish…
Through
2 Timothy 4:16
At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
leads to
- Acts 7:60
  Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
- John 16:32
  “Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father…
- Mark 14:50
  Then everyone deserted Him and fled.

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Proverbs

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Proverbs