Proverbs 25:19
A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, || [Is] the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.
Literal Standard Version
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 28:20And Tilgath-Pilneser king of Asshur comes to him, and does distress him, and has not strengthened him,
Job 6:14To a despiser of his friends [is] shame, || And the fear of the Mighty he forsakes.
Job 6:20They were ashamed that one has trusted, || They have come to it and are confounded.
Isaiah 30:3And the strength of Pharaoh || Has been to you for shame, || And the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion,
Isaiah 36:6Behold, you have trusted on the staff of this broken reed—on Egypt—which a man leans on, and it has gone into his hand, and pierced it—so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.
2 Timothy 4:16no one stood with me in my first defense, but all forsook me (may it not be reckoned to them),
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 →