Proverbs 24:11
Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter.
Darby Translation
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
10[If] thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.
Cross References
Job 29:17And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Isaiah 58:6Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke?
Luke 23:23But they were urgent with loud voices, begging that he might be crucified. And their voices [and those of the chief priests] prevailed.
Acts 18:17And having all laid hold on Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue, they beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio troubled himself about none of these things.
Acts 23:10And a great tumult having arisen, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been torn in pieces by them, commanded the troop to come down and take him by force from the midst of them, and to bring [him] into the fortress.
1 John 3:16Hereby we have known love, because *he* has laid down his life for us; and *we* ought for the brethren to lay down [our] lives.
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 →