If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength

Proverbs 24:1-34

Do not envy the wicked, do not desire their company; for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about making trouble.

By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.

Surely you need guidance to wage war, and victory is won through many advisers.

Whoever plots evil will be known as a schemer. The schemes of folly are sin, and people detest a mocker.

If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength!

Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?

Do not fret because of evildoers or be envious of the wicked, for the evildoer has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

Fear the Lord and the king, my son, and do not join with rebellious officials, for those two will send sudden destruction on them, and who knows what calamities they can bring?

Do not say, “I’ll do to them as they have done to me; I’ll pay them back for what they did.”

Why?

The Lord is the God who knows everything and everyone's heart.

Fear the Lord and the king is the way of life.

When trouble comes don't be afraid for the Lord knows it, we are in the hands of the Lord, and God has his plan beyond us.

Do not rely on me. together many plans may success.

How?

Be strong with the Lord instead of myself.