But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
Proverbs 24:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength being small; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. American Standard Version (1901) If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small. Common English Bible If you show yourself weak on a day of distress, your strength is too small. Catholic Public Domain Version If you despair, being weary in the day of anguish, your strength will be diminished. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If thou lose hope being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished. |
But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
Do not be fainthearted or fearful at the rumors heard in the land— one year one rumor comes, the next year another, rumors of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.
Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart.
I pray, therefore, that you may not lose heart over my sufferings for you; they are your glory.
The officers shall continue to address the troops, saying, ‘Is anyone afraid or disheartened? He should go back to his house, or he might cause the heart of his comrades to melt like his own.’
“I know where you are living, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you are holding fast to my name, and you did not deny your faith in me even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan lives.
I also know that you are enduring and bearing up for the sake of my name and that you have not grown weary.
David said in his heart, “I shall certainly perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than to 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.”