Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

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 thought of the foolish is sin, and the scornful is an abomination unto men. 10 If thou be overseen and negligent in time of need, then is thy strength but small. 11 Deliver them that go unto death, and are led away to be slain, and be not negligent therein.

Cross References

Job 4:5

But now that the plague is come upon thee, thou shrinkest away: now that it hath touched thyself, thou art faint hearted.

1 Samuel 27:1

Then thought David in his heart, "I may perish, one day or other, by the hands of Saul. There is no better for me, than to flee into the land of the Philistines; that Saul, of very despair to find me, may cease to seek me anymore in all the coasts of Israel: for so I may escape his hand."

Isaiah 40:28-31

Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD which made all the corners of the earth, is neither weary nor faint: and that his wisdom cannot be comprehended?

Jeremiah 51:46

Be not faint hearted, and fear not at every rumor that shall be heard in the land: for every year bringeth new tidings; yea, strange wickedness and lordship.

John 4:8

for his disciples were gone away unto the town to buy meat.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore seeing that we have such an office, even as mercy is come on us, we faint not:

Ephesians 3:13

Wherefore, I desire that ye faint not because of my tribulations which I suffer for your sakes: which is your praise.

Hebrews 12:3-5

Consider therefore how that he endured such speaking against him of sinners, lest ye should be wearied and faint in your minds.

Revelation 2:3

And didst wash thyself, and hast patience: and for my name's sake hast laboured and hast not fainted.

Revelation 2:13

I know thy works and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is, and thou keepest my name and hast not denied my faith. And in my days Antipas was a faithful witness of mine, which was slain among you where Satan dwelleth.

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