767 verses about Weakness

Yes for health he calls upon that which is weak, And for life he implores that which is dead, And for aid he supplicateth that which has least experience. And for a good journey that which can’t so much as move a step,

But most foolish were they all, and of feebler soul than a babe, The enemies of your people, who oppressed them;

Woe to fearful hearts, and to faint hands, And to the sinner that goes two ways!

Woe to the faint heart! for it believes not; Therefore will it not be defended.

And if he fails in understanding, have patience with him; And dishonor him not while you are in your full strength.

For great is the potency of the Lord, And he is glorified of those who are lowly.

If he go astray, she will forsake him, And give him over to his fall.

If you shall be brought low, he will be against you, And will hide himself from your face.

Lend not to a man that is mightier than yourself; And if you lend, be as one that has lost.

Give not your soul to a woman, That she should set her foot upon your strength.

The bee is little among such as fly; And her fruit is the chief of sweetmeats.

There is one that is sluggish, and has need of help, Lacking in strength, and that abounds in poverty; And the eyes of the Lord looked upon him for good, And he set him up from his low estate,

For a while he will abide with you, And if you give way, he will not hold out.

Take not up a burden above your strength; And have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than yourself. What fellowship shall the earthen pot have with the kettle? This will strike, and that will be dashed in pieces.

Keep them to yourself, and take earnest heed, For you walk in peril of your falling.

Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away: And he that cleaves to harlots will be the more reckless.

And if for lack of power he be hindered from sinning, If he find opportunity, he will do mischief.

There is that destroys his soul through bashfulness; And by a foolish countenance he will destroy it.

Pales set on a high place will not stand against the wind: So a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool will not stand against any fear.

That my ignorances be not multiplied, And my sins abound not; And I will fall before my adversaries, And my enemy rejoice over me.

Give me any plague but the plague of the heart; And any wickedness but the wickedness of a woman;

A wicked woman is abasement of heart, And sadness of countenance, and a wounded heart: A woman that will not make her husband happy Is as hands that hang down, and palsied knees.

Help your neighbor according to your power, And take heed to yourself that you fall not to the same.

Show not yourself valiant in wine; For wine has destroyed many.

Drunkenness increases the rage of a fool to his hurt; It diminishes strength, and adds wounds.

For of sorrow comes death, And sorrow of heart will bow down the strength.

O death, acceptable is your sentence to a man that is needy, and that fails in strength, That is in extreme old age, and is distracted about all things, And is perverse, and has lost patience!

Better is a man that hides his foolishness Than a man that hides his wisdom.

You did bow your loins to women, And in your body you were brought into subjection.

They compassed me on every side, And there was none to help me. I was looking for the succour of men, And it was not.

but the soul that is greatly vexed, which goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give you glory and righteousness, O Lord.

O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, the soul in anguish, the troubled spirit, cries to you.

But I, what can I help you?

Yet can’t these gods save themselves from rust and moths, though they be covered with purple raiment.

He has also a dagger in his right hand, and an axe: but can’t deliver himself from war and robbers.

They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they can’t rise up again of themselves: neither, if they be set awry, can they make themselves straight: but the offerings are set before them, as if they were dead men.

They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty.

They can’t restore a blind man to his sight, nor deliver any that is in distress.

Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.

and let them be ashamed of all their power and might, and let their strength be broken;

and the rulers and elders groaned, the virgins and young men were made feeble, and the beauty of the women was changed.

But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, What? shall we be able, being a small company, to fight against so great and strong a multitude? and we for our part are faint, having tasted no food this day.

How shall we be able to stand before them, except you be our help?

And as soon as it was day, Judas appeared in the plain with three thousand men: howbeit they had not armor nor swords to their minds.

give them faintness of heart, and cause the boldness of their strength to melt away, and let them quake at their destruction:

Now therefore come and deliver us from their hand, for many of us are fallen.

And Timotheus said to the captains of his army, when Judas and his army drew near to the brook of water, If he pass over first to us, we shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily prevail against us:

and they rose up against him to battle: and he fled, and removed thence with great heaviness, to return to Babylon.

And he was there many days, because great grief was renewed upon him, and he made account that he should die.

And he made haste, and gave consent to depart; and he said to the king and the leaders of the army and to the men, We decay daily, and our food is scant, and the place where we encamp is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us:

But when Alcimus saw that Judas and his company waxed strong, and knew that he was not able to withstand them, he returned to the king, and brought evil accusations against them.

and they saw the multitude of the forces, that they were many, and they feared exceedingly: and many slipped away out of the army; there were not left of them more than eight hundred men.

And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and that the battle pressed upon him, and he was sore troubled in heart, for that he had no time to gather them together, and he waxed faint.

And they would have dissuaded him, saying, We shall in no wise be able: but let us rather save our lives now: let us return again, we and our kindred, and fight against them: but we are few.

And Judas fell, and the rest fled.

but the people stood still, as Jonathan commanded them: and their horses were wearied.

And there were gathered to him all the forces which Demetrius had sent away with disgrace, and they fought against him, and he fled and was put to the rout.

But those who lay in ambush rose out of their places, and joined battle; and all those who were of Jonathan’s side fled:

for he knew that troubles were come upon him all at once, and that his forces had forsaken him.

And when he had fallen suddenly to the ground, and great darkness had come over him, his guards caught him up and put him into a litter,

and carried him, him that had just now entered with a great train and all his guard into the aforesaid treasury, himself now brought to utter helplessness, manifestly made to recognize the sovereignty of God.

And so, while he, through the working of God, speechless and bereft of all hope and deliverance, lay prostrate,

those who were cowardly and distrustful of the judgement of God ran away and left the country.

And he that but now supposed himself to have the waves of the sea at his bidding, so vainglorious was he beyond the condition of a man, and that thought to weigh the heights of the mountains in a balance, was now brought to the ground and carried in a litter, showing to all that the power was manifestly God’s;

And the man that a little before supposed himself to touch the stars of heaven, no one could endure to carry for his intolerable stench.

But the more part of them escaped wounded and naked; and Lysias also himself escaped by shameful flight.

And if I have written well and to the point in my story, this is what I myself desired; but if meanly and indifferently, this is all I could attain to.

Then said the king to his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants carried him away out of the army.

Yes, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become bondmen for their sakes.

Behold, now are we before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer before you by reason of these things.

I was small among my brothers, and youngest in my father’s house. I tended my father’s sheep.

see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are borne down, and made subject to our enemies, and are become weak and powerless.

Shaking him to and fro as a reed is shaken with the wind, he cast him upon the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed; by a righteous judgment deprived of the faculty of speech.

A multitude of aged hoary-haired old men, were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed.

The heathen believed the Jews to be destitute of all protection; for chains fettered them about.

His kinsmen, who were reclining with him, wondered at his instability, and thus expressed themselves:

And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralysed the vehemence of his spirit.

heal the broken and the weak, laugh not a lame man to scorn, defend the maimed, and let the blind man come to the sight of my glory.

Then answered I and said, who of the sons of men is able to do this, that you should ask me of such things?

and we pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is as a vapor, neither are we worthy to obtain mercy.

For it is not able to bear the things that are promised to the righteous in the times to come: for this world is full of sadness and infirmities.

Then I awaked, and an extreme trembling went through my body, and my mind was troubled, so that it fainted.

As for me, I am unwise: how may I then speak of these things whereof you asked me?

And so are those who come after you less than you⌃, as born of the creature which now begins to be old, and is past the strength of youth.

Now therefore why you disquiet yourself, seeing you are but a corruptible man? and why are you moved, whereas you are but mortal?

He answered me, and said, This present world is not the end; the full glory remains not therein: therefore have they who were able prayed for the weak.

For what is man, that you should take displeasure at him? or what is a corruptible race, that you should be so bitter toward it?

The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness is done away from you, and [death] is hidden; hell and corruption are fled into forgetfulness:

and, behold, I lay as one that had been dead, and my understanding was taken from me; and he took me by the right hand, and comforted me, and set me upon my feet, and said to me,

Behold, I am yet weary in my mind, and very weak in my spirit; nor is there the least strength in me, for the great fear wherewith I was affrighted this night.

Therefore will I now beseech the Most High, that he will strengthen me to the end.

and let go from the mortal thoughts, cast away from you the burdens of man, put off now your weak nature,

For look, how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon those who dwell therein.

You shall be weakened as a poor woman with stripes, and as one chastened with wounds, so that your mighty ones and your lovers you shall not be able to receive.

As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growth of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these passions.

And it is not merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master.

but a certain irrational longing for the water in the enemy’s camp grew stronger and fiercer upon him, and consumed him with languish.

And Apollonius fell half dead upon the court which is open to all nations, and extended his hands to heaven, and implored the Hebrews, with tears, to pray for him, and propitiate the heavenly army.

But perhaps some might say, It is not all who conquer passions, as all do not possess wise reasoning.

This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions: