Proverbs 25:19
World English Bible (WEB)
Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a lame foot.
In context
17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.
18 A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
19 Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a lame foot.
20 As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
Proverbs 25:19 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a lame foot.
- KJV King James Version
- Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, [Is] the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.
- DBY Darby Translation
- A broken tooth, and a tottering foot, is confidence in an unfaithful [man] in the day of trouble.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.