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Proverbs 24:8-10

⁸ Whoever plans to do evil
will be called a schemer.
⁹ The devising of folly is sin,
and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.
¹⁰ If you faint in the day of adversity,
your strength is small.

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Just a short post today, taking a small piece of Proverbs.  I really don’t need to put any more in the post, but that wouldn’t be much of a blog.

Three statements, all individual pieces yet they go together as well.  The first simply put says to do no evil.  But then the next statement says to not lead others to folly, or sin and that to scoff and break your fellow men and women down is an abomination.

Then the next verse says that if you faint in the day of adversity. Notice that it doesn’t say if you find adversity.  One could imply that it’s assumed you will.  And if you faint, your strength is small.

But the next verse doesn’t tell you how to stay strong in adversity and I didn’t include it for that reason.  What is the reason?  YOU will faint in the day of adversity.  YOU will plan to do evil at some point, devise of folly (for others), and scoff.

I’ve got a little note beside the line your strength is small. In my notes in at least one of my bibles, I have written HIS strength is infinite.