Proverbs 24:10 
Context| NETBible | If you faint 1 in the day of trouble, 2 your strength is small! 3 |
| NIV © biblegateway Pro 24:10 |
If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength! |
| NASB © biblegateway Pro 24:10 |
If you are slack in the day of distress, Your strength is limited. |
| NLT © biblegateway Pro 24:10 |
If you fail under pressure, your strength is not very great. |
| MSG © biblegateway Pro 24:10 |
If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn't much to you in the first place. |
| BBE © SABDAweb Pro 24:10 |
If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small. |
| NRSV © bibleoremus Pro 24:10 |
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength being small; |
| NKJV © biblegateway Pro 24:10 |
If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small. |
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| NETBible | If you faint 1 in the day of trouble, 2 your strength is small! 3 |
| NET Notes |
1 tn Heb “show yourself slack” (NASB similar). The verb רָפָה (rafah) means “to sink; to relax.” In the causative stems it means “to let slacken; to let go; to refrain; to fail; to do nothing.” In the Hitpael stem BDB 952 s.v. defines it as “to show yourself slack.” It has also been rendered as “give up” (NCV, CEV); “fail” (NLT); “falter” (NIV). The colon implies a condition, for which the second part of the verse is the apodosis. 2 tn The verse employs a paronomasia to underscore the point: “trouble” is צָרָה (tsarah), literally “a bind; a strait [or, narrow] place”; “small” is צַר (tsar), with the same idea of “narrow” or “close.” 3 sn The test of strength is adversity, for it reveals how strong a person is. Of course a weak person can always plead adverse conditions in order to quit. This is the twenty-fourth saying. |
