Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

If you are slack in the day of distress,
Your strength is limited.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

If you do nothing in a difficult time,
your strength is limited.

International Standard Version

If you grow weary when times are troubled, your strength is limited.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


If you are slack (careless) in the day of distress,
Your strength is limited.

Bible in Basic English

If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Wilt thou be discouraged in the day of straits thy strength is narrow.

King James 2000

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[If] you faint on the day of adversity, little [is] your strength.

Modern King James verseion

If you faint in the day of trial, your strength is small.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If thou be overseen and negligent in time of need, then is thy strength but small.

NET Bible

If you faint in the day of trouble, your strength is small!

New Heart English Bible

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou hast been slothful in the day of straitness, Strait, is thy strength.

Webster

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

World English Bible

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If thou faint
רפה 
Raphah 
Usage: 46

in the day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

כּוח כּח 
Koach 
Usage: 126

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Learning From Your Father

9 The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind. 10 If you are slack in the day of distress,
Your strength is limited.
11 Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

Cross References

Job 4:5

But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

1 Samuel 27:1

Then David said in his heart, "Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand."

Isaiah 40:28-31

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

Jeremiah 51:46

Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful at the report heard in the land, when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land, and ruler is against ruler.

John 4:8

(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.

Ephesians 3:13

So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.

Hebrews 12:3-5

Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

Revelation 2:3

I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.

Revelation 2:13

"'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

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