Proverbs 24:10
[If] thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
In Context
9The purpose of folly is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to men.
11Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter.
Cross References
Job 4:5But now it is come upon thee, and thou grievest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Jeremiah 51:46lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; for a rumour shall come [one] year, and after that a rumour in [another] year, and violence in the earth, ruler against ruler.
2 Corinthians 4:1Therefore, having this ministry, as we have had mercy shewn us, we faint not.
Hebrews 12:3For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.
Revelation 2:13I know where thou dwellest, where the throne of Satan [is]; and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in the days in which Antipas my faithful witness [was], who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:8-10
The Malicious and the Scornful. 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. 8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. 9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. Here is the description, 1. Of a weak man: Wisdom is too high for him; he thinks it so, and therefore, despairing to attain it, he will take no pains in the pursuit of it, but sit down content without it. And really it is so; he has not capacity for it, and therefore… Read the whole commentary →