Focused Passage

Proverbs 24:10

Wisdom Builds the House: Justice, Courage, Diligence, Enemies, and the Future of the Righteous

The chapter moves from warnings against envying the wicked, to wisdom as constructive strength, to courageous rescue, to future hope, to restraint toward enemies, to public justice and honest speech, and finally to ordered labor and the severe warning of the sluggard's ruined field.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

10If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

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Verse 10

Original words

If you faintהִ֭תְרַפִּיתָH7503Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - second person masculine singularin the dayבְּי֥וֹםH3117Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular constructof distressצָרָ֗הH6869Noun - feminine singularhow smallצַ֣רH6862Adjective - masculine singular[is] your strengthכֹּחֶֽכָה׃H3581Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular

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