Proverbs 24:11

Save those who are drawn away toward mavet, 1 and hold back those stumbling toward slaughter. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 yom tzarah, 1 thy strength is small. 1

12If thou sayest, See, we knew it not, 1 doth not He that weigheth the levavot consider it? 1 And He that is guard over thy nefesh, doth not He know it? 1 And shall not He render to every adam according to his works? 1

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Cross References

Job 29:17And I broke the fangs of the wicked, 1 and plucked the prey out of his shinayim. 1

Isaiah 58:6Is not this the tzom that I have chosen? 1 To loose the chartzubbot resha (chains of wickedness, injustice), 1 to undo the aguddot motah (bindings of the yoke bar), 1 and to let the retzutzim (oppressed ones) go as chafeshim (free ones), 1 and that ye break kol motah (every yoke of oppression)? 1

Luke 23:23But they insisted with a kol gadol demanding him to be hanged on HaEtz and their voices were roiv (the larger portion) prevailing.

Acts 18:17They seized Sosthenes, the Rosh HaKnesset, and were beating him in full view of the Kes HaMishpat (Judgment Seat), and none of these things created a concern for Gallio.

Acts 23:10And fearing much more machloket was coming, the Roman tribune ordered the troops to go down to take Rav Sha'ul away from the midst of them and to bring him into the barracks lest he be torn to pieces by them.

1 John 3:16By this we have had da'as of ahavah, because that One on behalf of us laid down his nefesh; + 3:16 Isa 53:10 and we ought, on behalf of the Achim b'Moshiach, to lay down our nefashot.

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 →

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