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<p>Note, 1. In <i>the day of adversity</i> we are apt to <i>faint</i>, to droop and be discouraged, to desist from our work, and to despair of relief. Our spirits sink, and then our hands hang down and our knees grow feeble, and we become unfit for anything. And often those that are most cheerful when they are well droop most, and are most dejected, when any thing ails them. 2. This is an evidence that our <i>strength is small</i>, and is a means of weakening it more. “It is a sign that thou art not a man of any resolution, any firmness of thought, any consideration, any faith (for that is the strength of a soul), if thou canst not bear up under an afflictive change of thy condition.” Some are so feeble that they can bear nothing; if a trouble does but <i>touch</i> them (<a class="bibleref" title="Job.4.5" href="/passage/?search=Job.4.5">Job 4:5</a>), nay, if it does but threaten them, they faint immediately and are ready to give up all for gone; and by this means they render themselves unfit to grapple with their trouble and unable to help themselves. <i>Be of good courage</i> therefore, <i>and God shall strengthen thy heart</i>.</p>
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