Proverbs 24:10
New International Version
If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength!

New Living Translation
If you fail under pressure, your strength is too small.

English Standard Version
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

Berean Standard Bible
If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

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

New King James Version
If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small.

New American Standard Bible
If you show yourself lacking courage on the day of distress, Your strength is meager.

NASB 1995
If you are slack in the day of distress, Your strength is limited.

NASB 1977
If you are slack in the day of distress, Your strength is limited.

Legacy Standard Bible
If you are slack in the day of trouble, Your strength is in trouble.

Amplified Bible
If you are slack (careless) in the day of distress, Your strength is limited.

Christian Standard Bible
If you do nothing in a difficult time, your strength is limited.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you do nothing in a difficult time, your strength is limited.

American Standard Version
If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Affliction will drive the evil in the day of distress.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He shall be defiled in the evil day, and in the day of affliction, until he be utterly consumed.

Contemporary English Version
Don't give up and be helpless in times of trouble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou lose hope being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If you faint in a crisis, you are weak.

Good News Translation
If you are weak in a crisis, you are weak indeed.

International Standard Version
If you grow weary when times are troubled, your strength is limited.

JPS Tanakh 1917
If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small indeed.

Literal Standard Version
You have showed yourself weak in a day of adversity, | Your power is restricted,

Majority Standard Bible
If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

New American Bible
Did you fail in a day of adversity, did your strength fall short?

NET Bible
If you faint in the day of trouble, your strength is small!

New Revised Standard Version
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength being small;

New Heart English Bible
If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

Webster's Bible Translation
If thou faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

World English Bible
If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

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Context
Do not Envy
9A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men. 10If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength! 11Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.…

Cross References
Hebrews 12:3
Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Deuteronomy 20:8
Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, "Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own."

Job 4:5
But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

Jeremiah 51:46
Do not let your heart grow faint, and do not be afraid when the rumor is heard in the land; for a rumor will come one year--and then another the next year--of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.


Treasury of Scripture

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

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1 Samuel 27:1
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

Job 4:5
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

Isaiah 40:28-31
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding…

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Proverbs 24
1. Precepts and Warnings














(10) If thou faint in the day of adversity.--And prove unable to help thyself or others; an exhortation to courage (comp. Hebrews 12:12). A "more excellent way" is shown in the following verse.

Verse 10. - If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. The gnome seems to be unconnected with the preceding. There is a paronomasia between צָרָה (tsarah), "adversity," and צַר (tsar), "small," narrow, which is retained by Fleischer: "Si segnis fueris die angustiae, angustae sunt vires tuae." So we may say in English, "If thou faint in time of straitness, straitened is thy strength." If you fail, and succumb to anxiety or danger, instead of rising to meet the emergency, then you are but a weakling or a coward, and the strength which you seemed to possess and of which you boasted, perhaps, is nothing worth. Such a man hearkens not to the Sibyl's counsel (Virgil, 'AEneid,' 6:95) ?

"Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito,
Quam tua te fortuna sinet."
The LXX. again varies from the received text, "He shall be polluted in an evil day, and in a day of affliction, until he fail," or "die" (ἐκλίπῃ).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If you falter
הִ֭תְרַפִּיתָ (hiṯ·rap·pî·ṯā)
Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7503: Sink, relax

in the day
בְּי֥וֹם (bə·yō·wm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of distress,
צָרָ֗ה (ṣā·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6869: Tightness, a female rival

how small
צַ֣ר (ṣar)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6862: Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent

[is] your strength!
כֹּחֶֽכָה׃ (kō·ḥe·ḵāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species)


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