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Proverbs 24

Prov. 24:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If thou faint
raphah (Hebrew #7503)
to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en). See 7495.
Pronounce: raw-faw'
Origin: a primitive root
k in the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of adversity
tsarah (Hebrew #6869)
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival
KJV usage: adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsaw-raw'
Origin: feminine of 6862
, thy strength
koach (Hebrew #3581)
from an unused root meaning to be firm; vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
KJV usage: ability, able, chameleon, force, fruits, might, power(-ful), strength, substance, wealth.
Pronounce: ko'-akh
Origin: or (Dan. 11:6) kowach {ko'-akh}
is γsmall
tsar (Hebrew #6862)
from 6887; narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsar
Origin: or tsar {tsawr}
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Heb. 12:5• 5And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when reproved by him; (Heb. 12:5)
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narrow.

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1 Sam. 27:1• 1And 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 will despair of me to seek me any more within all the limits of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand. (1 Sam. 27:1)
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Job 4:5• 5But now it is come upon thee, and thou grievest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. (Job 4:5)
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Isa. 40:28‑31• 28Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding.
 29He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.
 30Even the youths shall faint and shall tire, and the young men shall stumble and fall;
 31but they that wait upon Jehovah shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not tire; they shall walk, and not faint. (Isa. 40:28‑31)
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John 4:8• 8(for his disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions). (John 4:8)
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2 Cor. 4:1• 1Therefore, having this ministry, as we have had mercy shewn us, we faint not. (2 Cor. 4:1)
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Eph. 3:13• 13Wherefore I beseech you not to faint through my tribulations for you, which is your glory. (Eph. 3:13)
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Heb. 12:3‑5• 3For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.
 4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.
 5And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when reproved by him; (Heb. 12:3‑5)
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Rev. 2:3,13• 3and endurest, and hast borne for my name's sake, and hast not wearied:
 13I know where thou dwellest, where the throne of Satan is; and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in the days in which Antipas my faithful witness was, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells. (Rev. 2:3,13)
small.
Heb. narrow.
• To faint, or become disheartened then, is to show that one has not been truly counting upon God for deliverance. The hour of trial and opposition will only find the trusting soul more confident still, for he knows where the source of all power is to be found. Contrast Elijah when threatened by Jezebel, with David when the people spake of stoning him (1 Kings 19:2-4; 1 Sam. 30:6). (“Proverbs Twenty-Four” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is smalle.

JND Translation Notes

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There is a play on the words "trouble" and "small."