Proverbs 24:11
Deliver those who are carried away to death, and hold thou back those who are ready to be slain.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
In Context
10If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
Cross References
Job 29:17And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Isaiah 58:6Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Luke 23:23But they were relentless with loud voices demanding him to be crucified. And their voices and those of the chief priests prevailed.
Acts 18:17But all the Greeks, having taken Sosthenes the synagogue ruler, were beating him in front of the judgment seat. And Gallio was not going to judge, even of these things.
Acts 23:10And a great conflict having developed, the chief captain, having been alarmed lest Paul might be torn apart by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from the midst of them, and bring him into the fort.
1 John 3:16By this we know love, because that man laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:11
10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Note, 1. In the day of adversity we are apt to faint, 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 strength is small, and is a means of weakening it more. "It… Read the whole commentary →