Proverbs 24:11
If [from] delivering those taken to death, || And you take back those slipping to the slaughter.
Literal Standard 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
10You have showed yourself weak in a day of adversity, || Your power is restricted,
Cross References
Job 29:17And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, || And from his teeth I cast away prey.
Isaiah 58:6Is this not the fast that I chose—To loose the bands of wickedness, || To shake off the burdens of the yoke, || And to send out the oppressed free, || And draw off every yoke?
Luke 23:23And they were pressing with loud voices asking Him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,
Acts 18:17and all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes, the chief man of the synagogue, were beating [him] before the judgment seat, and Gallio was not even caring for these things.
Acts 23:10and a great dissension having come, the chief captain having been afraid lest Paul may be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the army, having gone down, to seize him out of their midst, and to bring [him] into the stronghold.
1 John 3:16in this we have known love, because He 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 →