Jeremiah 12:5
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the pride of the Jordan?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- thou hast
- Proverbs 3:11; Proverbs 24:10; Hebrews 12:3, 4; 1 Peter 4:12
- canst
- Jeremiah 26:8; Jeremiah 36:26; Jeremiah 38:4–6
- swelling
- Jeremiah 49:19; Jeremiah 50:44; Joshua 3:15; 1 Chronicles 12:15; Psalm 42:7; Psalm 69:1, 2