Proverbs 25:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

Proverbs 25:19 —

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Cross-References

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Isaiah 36:6
Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
Job 6:14-20
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. …
Ezekiel 29:6-7
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. …
2 Chronicles 28:20-21
And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not. …
2 Timothy 4:16
At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

Topics

Brotherly Kindness Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Dishonesty Dissembling Falsehood

Commentary

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

(vv. 19)

1. The confidence of an unfaithful man (so some read it) will be like a broken tooth; his policy, his power, his interest, all that which he trusted in to support him in his wickedness, will fail him in time of trouble, Ps. 52:7. 2. Confidence in an unfaithful man (so we read it), in a man whom we thought trusty and therefore depended on, but who proves otherwise; it proves not only unserviceable,…

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

(vv. 19)

19. Treachery annoys as well as deceives.