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Proverbs 24:10

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

KJV

Si desperaveris lassus in die angustiæ, imminuetur fortitudo tua.

Vulgate

ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κακῇ καὶ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεως ἕως ἂν ἐκλίπῃ.

LXX

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

ASV

הִ֭תְרַפִּיתָ בְּ/י֥וֹם צָרָ֗ה צַ֣ר כֹּחֶֽ/כָה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

ו
v
verb · 107×
וֹ
v
noun · 127×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
ךָ֖
k
verb · 46×
צָרָֽה
tsrh
noun · 72×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 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
  • 2Cor 4:1 — Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
  • Col 1:11 — Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
  • Eph 3:13 — Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
  • Esth 4:13 — Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
  • Heb 12:3 — For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
  • Heb 12:3 — For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
  • Isa 40:28 — 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.
  • Jer 12:5 — If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in
  • Jer 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,
  • Job 4:5 — But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
  • Ps 49:5 — Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
  • Rev 2:3 — And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
  • Rev 2:13 — I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was s