Proverbs 25:19
Like a broken tooth and a foot out of joint, is confidence in a treacherous man in a time of distress.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
In Context
Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:20Then came against him Tilgath-pilneesser the king of Assyria, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
Job 6:14As though I were one who refuseth kindness to his friend, and forsaketh the fear of the Almighty:
Job 6:20But they stand ashamed because they had trusted; they come thither and are made to blush.
Isaiah 30:3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh become your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt your disgrace.
Isaiah 36:6Behold, thou trustedst on yon cracked reed-staff, on Egypt; which, if a man lean on it, will enter into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh the king of Egypt to all that trust on him.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:19
18 A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. Here, 1. The sin condemned is bearing false witness against our neighbour, either in judgment or in common conversation, contrary to the law of the ninth commandment. 2. That which it is here condemned for is the mischievousness of it; it is in its power to ruin not only men's reputation, but their lives, estates, families, all that is dear to them. A false testimony is every thing that is dangerous; it is a maul… Read the whole commentary →