Proverbs 25:19
Depending on unreliable people when you have troubles is as bad as trying to eat when you have a bad/hurting tooth or trying to walk when your foot is crippled.
Translation for Translators
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 28:20Tiglath-Pileser, the king of Assyria, sent his army saying that they would help Ahaz, but instead of helping him, they caused him to experience trouble.
Job 6:14“When a man has many troubles, his friends should be kind to him, even if he stops revering Almighty God.
Job 6:20But they do not find any, so they are very disappointed.
Isaiah 30:3But the result of your trusting in the king of Egypt is that you will be disappointed and disgraced; because of trusting in him, you will be humiliated.
Isaiah 36:6Listen to me! You are relying on the army of Egypt. But that will be like [MET] using a broken reed for a walking stick on which you could lean. But it would pierce the hand of anyone who would lean on it! That is what the King of Egypt would be like for anyone who relied on him for help.
2 Timothy 4:16When I first defended myself in court here, no one came along to help defend me. Instead, they all left me. I pray that it will not be counted against { God will forgive} them [LIT] for leaving me.
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 →