Proverbs 24:10
You have showed yourself weak in a day of adversity, || Your power is restricted,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
In Context
9The thought of folly [is] sin, || And a scorner [is] an abomination to man.
11If [from] delivering those taken to death, || And you take back those slipping to the slaughter.
Cross References
Job 4:5But now, it comes to you, || And you are weary; It strikes to you, and you are troubled.
Jeremiah 51:46And lest your heart be tender, || And you are afraid of the report that is heard in the land, || And the report has come in [one] year, || And after it [another] report in [another] year, || And violence [is] in the land, ruler against ruler;
2 Corinthians 4:1Because of this, having this ministry, according as we received kindness, we do not faint,
Hebrews 12:3for again consider Him who endured such contradiction from the sinners to Himself, that you may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.
Revelation 2:13I have known your works, and where you dwell—where the throne of Satan [is]—and you hold fast My Name, and you did not deny My faith, even in the days in which Antipas [was] My faithful witness, who was put to death beside 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 →