Proverbs 25:19
WEB
Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a lame foot.
BSB
Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
KJV
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H8127
n-f — tooth, sharp, ivory, cliff
Derivation: from 8150; compare 8143
a tooth (as sharp); specifically ivory; figuratively, a cliff
KJV: crag, × forefront, ivory, × sharp, tooth.
n.f — tooth
שֵׁן n.f. tooth, ivory
H7465
v — breakage
Derivation: for 7455;
breakage
KJV: broken, utterly.
vb — break
[רָעַע] vb. break
Qal
1. trans. can one break iron, iron out of the north ?
2. intrans. break = be broken
Hithpō‛. the earth is broken asunder
H7272
n-f — foot, step, pudenda
Derivation: from 7270;
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
KJV: × be able to endure, × according as, × after, × coming, × follow, (broken-)foot(-ed, -stool), × great toe, × haunt, × journey, leg, piss, possession, time.
n.f — foot
רֶ֫גֶל 247 n.f. foot
1. foot
2. three times (feet, paces)
H4154
n-f — made to slip, dislocated
Derivation: feminine passive participle of 4571;
properly, made to slip, i.e. dislocated
KJV: out of joint.
vb — slip
[מָעַד] vb. slip, slide, totter, shake (only Heb.);—
Qal slip
Pu. pass. not needed here
Hiph. cause to shake, i.e. make them totter
H4009
n-m — refuge, security, assurance
Derivation: from 982;
properly, a refuge, i.e. (objective) security, or (subjective) assurance
KJV: confidence, hope, sure, trust.
n.[m.] — confidence
מִבְטָח n.[m.] confidence
1. the act of confiding
2. the object of confidence
3. the state of confidence, security.
H898
v — cover, act covertly, pillage
Derivation: a primitive root;
to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage
KJV: deal deceitfully (treacherously, unfaithfully), offend, transgress(-or), (depart), treacherous (dealer, -ly, man), unfaithful(-ly, man), × very.
vb — act treacherously
[בָּגַד] vb. act or deal treacherously
H3117
n-m — day
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to be hot;
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV: age, always, chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), elder, × end, evening, (for) ever(-lasting, -more), × full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, old, outlived, perpetually, presently, remaineth, × required, season, × since, space, then, (process of) time, as at other times, in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), × whole ( age), (full) year(-ly), younger.
n.m — day
יוֹם 2285 n.m. day
1. day, opp. night
2. Day as division of time
3. יוֹם י׳ day of Yahweh, chiefly as time of his coming in judgment, involving often blessedness for righteous
4. Pl. days of anyone
5. Days
6. יוֹם = time
7. Phrases
H6869
n-f — tightness, trouble, rival
Derivation: feminine of 6862;
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival
KJV: adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.
n.f — dearth
בַּצָּרָה n.f. dearth, destitution
n.f — straits
צָרָה 72 n.f. id. [r.dz.ac] straits, distress
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Verse 19
Proverbs 25:19
1. The confidence of an unfaithful man (so some read it) will be like a broken tooth; his policy, his power, his interest, all that which he trusted in to support him in his wickedness, will fail him in time of trouble, Psa 52:7. 2. Confidence in an unfaithful man (so we read it), in a man whom we thought trusty and therefore depended on, but who proves otherwise; it proves not only unserviceable, but painful and vexatious, like a broken tooth, or a foot out of joint, which, when we put any stress upon it, not only fails us, but makes us feel from it, especially in time of trouble, when we most expect help from it; it is like a broken reed, Isa 36:6. Confidence in a faithful God, in time of trouble, will not prove thus; on him we may rest and in him dwell at ease.
Cross-references: Ps 52:7 · Isa 36:6