Proverbs 24:10
If you act as though you are helpless when you have troubles, you are truly very weak.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
In Context
11If it is unjustly decided that someone must be executed, try hard to rescue them [DOU].
Cross References
Job 4:5But now, when you experience disasters, you become discouraged. The disasters hit you, and you are stunned.
Jeremiah 51:46Do not be discouraged/worried [IDM] or afraid when you hear reports about what is happening in Babylon. People will report rumors like that every year, rumors about violent things being done in the land, and rumors about leaders fighting against each other.
2 Corinthians 4:1So, because God has acted so kindly toward me, enabling me to teach this great message to people, I never get so discouraged that I stop teaching it.
Hebrews 12:3Jesus patiently endured it when sinful people acted so hostilely against him. Try to act the way he did, so that you do not give up trusting God or become discouraged.
Revelation 2:13I know where you live: It is where Satan controls [MTY] people. I know that you firmly believe in me [MTY]. You did not deny that you believe/trust in me, not even in the time when Antipas, ◄my faithful witness/who faithfully told people about me►, was alive. He was killed {People killed him} in your city, a city where people habitually obey Satan.
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 →