Lev 9; Ps 10; Pr 24; 1Th 3

Lev 9:10 — Lev 9:11

The fat and the kidneys and the protruding lobe of the liver from the sin offering he offered up in smoke on the altar just as the Lord had commanded Moses, but the flesh and the hide he completely burned up outside the camp. 

Leviticus 9:24

Then fire went out from the presence of the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat parts on the altar, and all the people saw it, so they shouted loudly and fell down with their faces to the ground. 

Proverbs 24:10

If you faint in the day of trouble,

your strength is small!

Notes: a tn Heb "show yourself slack" (NASB similar). The verb רָפָה (rafah) means "to sink; to relax." In the causative stems it means "to let slacken; to let go; to refrain; to fail; to do nothing." In the Hitpael stem BDB 952 s.v. defines it as "to show yourself slack." It has also been rendered as "give up" (NCV, CEV); "fail" (NLT); "falter" (NIV). The colon implies a condition, for which the second part of the verse is the apodosis. 

c sn The test of strength is adversity, for it reveals how strong a person is. Of course a weak person can always plead adverse conditions in order to quit. This is the twenty-fourth saying.

Pro 24:17 — Pro 24:18

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles do not let your heart rejoice, lest the Lord see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

1 Thessalonians 3:8

For now we are alive again, if you stand firm in the Lord.