Proverbs 24:10
What does Proverbs 24:10 mean?
A plain-English look at Proverbs 24:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.
KJV
King James Version · 1611If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752If thou lose hope, being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890[If] thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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 escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
- Revelation 2:3
and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name’s sake, and hast not grown weary.
- Revelation 2:13
I know where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s throne is; and thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwelleth.
- Job 4:5
But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
- Jeremiah 51:46
And let not your heart faint, neither fear ye for the tidings that shall be heard in the land; for tidings shall come one year, and after that in another year shall come tidings, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
- Isaiah 40:28
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.
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