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Selected Verse: Proverbs 25:19 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
Pr 25:19	King James	Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Treachery annoys as well as deceives.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

Treachery annoys as well as deceives.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Stress is to be laid on the uselessness of the "broken tooth" and the "foot out of joint," or tottering, rather than on the pain connected with them. The King James Version loses the emphasis and point of the Hebrew by inverting the original order, which is "a broken ... joint is confidence" etc.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Stress is to be laid on the uselessness of the "broken tooth" and the "foot out of joint," or tottering, rather than on the pain connected with them. The King James Version loses the emphasis and point of the Hebrew by inverting the original order, which is "a broken ... joint is confidence" etc.

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