'Frail' in the Bible
"Sir, you know that the children are frail," Jacob suggested, "and the ewes and cows with me are still nursing their young. If they're driven even for a day, the entire flock will die.
Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am frail! Heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking!
Put them in [reverent] fear of You, O Lord,So that the nations may know they are but [frail and mortal] men. Selah.
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Stop regarding man, whose breath [of life] is in his nostrils [for so little time];For why should he be esteemed?
A voice says, “Call out [prophesy].”Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”[The voice answered:] All humanity is [as frail as] grass, and all that makes it attractive [its charm, its loveliness] is [momentary] like the flower of the field.
Thus says the Lord,“Cursed is the man who trusts in and relies on mankind,Making [weak, faulty human] flesh his strength,And whose mind and heart turn away from the Lord.
Beat your plow blades into swords, and your pruning knives into spears! Let the frail say, "I am strong!"
Keep awake, and pray that you may not enter into temptation: the spirit is right willing, but the body is frail."
Be wakeful, all of you, and keep on praying, that you may not come into temptation: the spirit is right willing, but the body is frail."
For what was impossible to the Law--powerless as it was because it acted through frail humanity--God effected. Sending His own Son in a body like that of sinful human nature and as a sacrifice for sin, He pronounced sentence upon sin in human nature;
But we have this precious treasure [the good news about salvation] in [unworthy] earthen vessels [of human frailty], so that the grandeur and surpassing greatness of the power will be [shown to be] from God [His sufficiency] and not from ourselves.
to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles [as the good news—the way of salvation], I did not immediately consult with anyone [for guidance regarding God’s call and His revelation to me].
Moreover here frail mortal men receive tithes: there one receives them about whom there is evidence that he is alive.
For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak [frail, sinful, dying men], but the word of the oath [of God], which came after [the institution of] the Law, permanently appoints [as priest] a Son who has been made perfect forever.