Proverbs 24:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

Proverbs 24:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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. …
Ephesians 3:13
Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
Jeremiah 51:46
And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
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.
Hebrews 12:3-5
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10)

Note, 1. In the day of adversity we are apt to faint, to droop and be discouraged, to desist from our work, and to despair of relief. Our spirits sink, and then our hands hang down and our knees grow feeble, and we become unfit for anything. And often those that are most cheerful when they are well droop most, and are most dejected, when any thing ails them. 2. This is an evidence that our strengt…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. Literally, “If thou fail in the day of straits (adversity), strait (or, small) is thy strength,” which is then truly tested.