A king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
Isaiah 40:30 - New Revised Standard Version Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even youths shall faint and be weary, and [selected] young men shall feebly stumble and fall exhausted; American Standard Version (1901) Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: Common English Bible Youths will become tired and weary, young men will certainly stumble; Catholic Public Domain Version Servants will struggle and fail, and young men will fall into infirmity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Youths shall faint and labour: and young men shall fall by infirmity. |
A king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
The young lions suffer want and hunger, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah
Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the skillful; but time and chance happen to them all.
Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children.
That is why the Lord did not have pity on their young people, or compassion on their orphans and widows; for everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke folly. For all this his anger has not turned away, his hand is stretched out still.
The destroyer of Moab and his towns has come up, and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
But I am full of the wrath of the Lord; I am weary of holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the gatherings of young men as well; both husband and wife shall be taken, the old folk and the very aged.
“Death has come up into our windows, it has entered our palaces, to cut off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.”
Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain their strength, nor shall the mighty save their lives;
But David went on with the pursuit, he and four hundred men; two hundred stayed behind, too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor.