Proverbs 24:10
If you give up in times of trouble, it shows how weak you are.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
In Context
9Plans thought up by stupid people are sinful. Everyone hates those who are scornful of others.
Cross References
Job 4:5But now you're the one suffering and you're upset.
Jeremiah 51:46Don't lose courage, and don't be afraid when you hear different rumors going around the country. There'll be one rumor one year, and another one the next, talking about violent revolution, of one ruler fighting against another.
2 Corinthians 4:1So then, since God in his mercy has given us this new way of relating to him, we don't give up.
Hebrews 12:3Think about Jesus who endured such hostility from sinful people so you don't grow tired and become discouraged.
Revelation 2:13I know you're living where Satan has his throne, and that you have stayed true to me. You have not denied your trust in me, even when my faithful witness Antipas was killed right among you there where Satan lives!
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 →