Proverbs 25:19
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Proverbs 25:19 in other translations
| BSB | Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble. |
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| WEB | Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a lame foot. |
| ASV | Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. |
| YLT | A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, Is the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity. |
| DARBY | A broken tooth, and a tottering foot, is confidence in an unfaithful man in the day of trouble. |
| BBE | Putting one's faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot. |
| Webster | Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. |
What does Proverbs 25:19 mean?
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Proverbs 25:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 25:19
- Isaiah 36:6
Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
- Ezekiel 29:6-7
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
- Job 6:14-20
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. …
- 2 Chronicles 28:20-21
And Tilgath–pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not. For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the Lord, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
- 2 Timothy 4:16
At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
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Context
- Proverbs 25:18
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
- Proverbs 25:19
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
- Proverbs 25:20
As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
Proverbs 25:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Diente quebrado y pie resbalador, es la confianza en el prevaricador en tiempo de angustia. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | La confiance en un perfide, au jour de la détresse, est une dent cassée et un pied chancelant. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ein zerbrochener Zahn und ein wankender Fuß: so ist das Vertrauen auf einen Treulosen am Tage der Drangsal. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Dens putridus, et pes lassus, qui sperat super infideli in die angustiæ, |