Proverbs 24:10

If thou hast slid, despairest (thou) in the day of anguish, (for) thy strength shall be made less.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

In Context

9The thought of a fool is (a) sin; and a backbiter is abomination of men (or and a backbiter is an abomination to everyone).

11Deliver thou them, that be led to death, (or Rescue thou them, who be led to death); and cease thou not to deliver them, that be drawn to death.

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Cross References

Job 4:5But now a wound is come upon thee, and thou hast failed, ( or fainted); it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.

Jeremiah 51:46and lest peradventure your heart wax nesh, and lest ye dread the hearing, that shall be heard in the land; and (an) hearing shall come in a year, and after this year shall come (another) hearing, and wickedness in the land, and a lord on a lord. (lest perhaps your heart grow soft, and lest ye fear the rumour, that shall be heard in the land; yea, a rumour shall come this year, and after this year another rumour shall come, and wickedness in the land, and a lord against a lord.)

2 Corinthians 4:1Therefore we that have this administration, [or office], after this that we have gotten mercy, fail we not,

Hebrews 12:3And bethink ye on him that suffered such gainsaying of sinful men against himself, that ye be not made weary, failing in your souls. (And so think upon him who suffered such opposition, or such railing, against himself from sinners, so that ye be not made weary, and lose heart.)

Revelation 2:13I know where thou dwellest, where the seat of Satan is (or where Satan’s throne is); and thou holdest my name, and deniedest not my faith. And in those days was Antipas, my faithful witness, that was slain at you (or who was killed there before you), where Satan dwelleth.

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 →

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