Proverbs 24:10 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 24:10

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 24:10: Note, 1. In the day of adversity we are apt to faint, to droop and be discouraged, to desist from our work, and to despair of relief. Our spirits sink, and then our hands hang down and our knees grow feeble, and we become unfit for anything. And often those that are most cheerful when they are well droop most, and are most dejected, when any thing ails them. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 24:10: If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death,.... Or "taken for or unto death" (h), in a violent way; who are taken by thieves and robbers, and used in a barbarous manner, as the man in the parable, whom the priest and Levite took no notice of, and was helped by the good Samaritan; or who are unjustly sentenced and appointed to...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 24:10: Literally, "If thou fail in the day of straits (adversity), strait (or, small) is thy strength," which is then truly tested.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 24:10: [If] thou faintest in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small. (b) Man has no trial of his strength till he is in trouble.