Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Proverbs 24:10
[If] thou (b) faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.
(b) Man has no trial of his strength till he is in trouble.
[If] thou (b) faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.
(b) Man has no trial of his strength till he is in trouble.
Verse Proverbs 24:10. IF _THOU FAINT_] If thou give way to discouragement and despair _in the day of adversity_ - time of trial or temptation. _THY STRENGTH_ IS _SMALL._] צר כחכה _tsar cochachah_, t...
CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk mischief. This theme is repea...
PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wor...
IF THOU FAINT, &C. Adversity is sent to try our strength; and, if we fail, it is proved to be weakness. Illustrations: Jacob (Genesis 42:36); David (1 Samuel 27:1); Elijah (1 Kings 19:3;...
_faint_ Or, _art slack_. The Heb. word is the same as in Proverbs 18:9. is _small_ as is proved to be the case by thy "fainting" under pressure. But the proverb may mean, _because of_thy fainting thy...
IF THOU FAINT, &C.— The plain meaning is, "Thou art not a man of courage, if thou canst not bear adversity with an equal mind." Some, however, paraphrase it, "If adversity deject thee, and break thy s...
CHAPTER 24 TEXT Proverbs 24:1-12 1. Be not thou envious against evil men; Neither desire to be with them: 2. For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief. 3. Through wi...
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. (IF) THOU FAINT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY (NARROWNESS), THY STRENGTH (IS) SMALL - Hebrew, narrow; the same root as "adversity." Thou need...
24:10 small. (e-13) There is a play on the words 'trouble' and 'small.'...
Adversity is sent to bring out your strength: if you are slack and irresolute in the day of trial you are proved to be a weakling. 11, 12. Do not seek to evade your responsibilities (Genesis 4:9; Jam...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
We must learn to be strong, even when we have troubles. We must learn to advise well, even when people oppose us. We must teach God’s message, even if people hate us. V11 If someone is going to die,...
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....
הִ֭תְרַפִּיתָ בְּ יֹ֥ום צָרָ֗ה צַ֣ר כֹּחֶֽכָה׃...
CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to hi...
Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor to...
_Diminished. This is the sad consequences of too much dejection, Ephesians iv. 19. Despairing, they abandon themselves to impurities. (Haydock)_...
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. If I pause over this single verse, it is but to desire the Reader to make the subject of it personal to himself, and to beg of him to enqu...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
[IF] THOU FAINT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY,.... When under bodily afflictions, stripping providences, reduced to great straits and wants; or under the violent persecutions of men, which is sometimes the...
Proverbs 24:10 [If] thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small. Ver. 10. _If thou faint in the day of adversity._] Afflictions try what sap we have, as hard weather tries what health...
_If thou faint in the day of adversity_ If thou art impatient and unable to bear sufferings; if thy resolution flag, and thou give way to despondency or dejection of mind; _thy strength is small_ Hebr...
V. 10. IF THOU FAINT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY, in times when anxiety and distress seem to obstruct progress, THY STRENGTH IS SMALL, for it is necessary to keep up courage, to develop moral courage and...
SMALL: _ Heb._ narrow...
IF THOU FAINT; if thou art impatient, and unable to bear sufferings; if thy resolution flag, and thou givest way to despondency or dejection of mind. _Is small_, Heb. _is narrow_; it lives in a little...
Proverbs 24:10 faint H7503 (H8694) day H3117 adversity H6869 strength H3581 small H6862 thou -...
Proverbs 24:10 I. The special object of all the training and discipline through which we pass in life is the increase of strength. II. Every life has its day of adversity. It is in the day of advers...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the wicked? We are all g
_If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small _ THE CHRISTIAN FAILING IN BUSINESS There are such failures. Christianity does not secure its disciples against misfortune and calamity....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:10. IF THOU FAINT, etc., rather “_If thou hast been straitened in the day of straitness, strait is thy strength_.” “The principle,” says Dr. Aitken, “is familiar enough,...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar warning is given, and comp....
Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in couplets or in phrases. Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studies destruction, and their...
1 Samuel 27:1; 2 Corinthians 4:1; Ephesians 3:13; Hebrews 12:3;...