Proverbs 25:19
Good News Translation
Depending on an unreliable person in a crisis is like trying to chew with a loose tooth or walk with a crippled foot.

New Revised Standard Version
Like a bad tooth or a lame foot is trust in a faithless person in time of trouble.

Contemporary English Version
A friend you can't trust in times of trouble is like having a toothache or a sore foot.

New American Bible
A bad tooth or an unsteady foot— a trust betrayed in time of trouble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To trust in an unfaithful man in the time of trouble, is like a rotten tooth, and weary foot,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

To trust in an unfaithful man in the time of trouble, is like a rotten tooth, and weary foot,

2 Chronicles 28:20,21 And he brought against him Thelgathphalnasar king of the Assyrians, who also afflicted him, and plundered him without any resistance. . . .

Job 6:14-20 He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord. . . .

Isaiah 30:1-3 Woe to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would take counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sin: . . .

Isaiah 36:6 Lo thou trustest upon this broken staff of a reed, upon Egypt: upon which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharao 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 thou hast been a staff of a reed to the house of Israel. . . .

2 Timothy 4:16 At my first answer, no man stood with me: but all forsook me. May it not be laid to their charge!

Context
More Proverbs of Solomon
18A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow. 19To trust in an unfaithful man in the time of trouble, is like a rotten tooth, and weary foot,20And one that looseth his garment in cold weather. As vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a very evil heart. As a moth doth by a garment, and a worm by the wood: so the sadness of a man consumeth the heart.…
Cross References
Job 6:15
My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys.

Proverbs 25:20
And one that looseth his garment in cold weather. As vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a very evil heart. As a moth doth by a garment, and a worm by the wood: so the sadness of a man consumeth the heart.

Isaiah 36:6
Lo thou trustest upon this broken staff of a reed, upon Egypt: upon which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharao king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

Proverbs 25:18
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