Proverbs 24:10
If thou despond on the day of distress, thy strength is small.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
In Context
9The counsel of folly is sin; and an abomination to men is the scorner.
11Deliver those that are taken unto death, and those that are moved away to the slaughter hold back.
Cross References
Job 4:5Yet now, when it cometh to thee, thou art wearied: it toucheth even thee, and thou art terrified.
Jeremiah 51:46And so that your heart may not faint, and ye fear at the report that is heard in the land: when the report cometh in one year, and after that in another year cometh another report, and when violence [be done] in the land, [by] ruler against ruler.
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 →