Proverbs 24:11

If it is unjustly decided that someone must be executed, try hard to rescue them [DOU].

Translation for Translators

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 you act as though you are helpless when you have troubles, you are truly very weak.

12If you say, “I did not know anything about it, so ◄it is not my concern/I did not try to help him►,” remember that God knows what we have done, and he knows what we were thinking [IDM, RHQ], and he will certainly [RHQ] repay us as we deserve for what we have done or for not doing what we should have done.

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Cross References

Job 29:17My causing wicked people to be unable to continue oppressing others was like [MET] breaking the fangs of fierce wild animals and forcing them to drop from their teeth/mouths the animals that they had caught/seized.

Isaiah 58:6No, that is not the kind of fasting that I desire. What I really want [RHQ] is for you to free those who have been unjustly put in prison [DOU], and to encourage those who are ◄treated cruelly/oppressed►; I want you to free those who have been oppressed in any way.

Luke 23:23But they kept insisting. They shouted loudly that Jesus should be nailed {that Pilate should have his soldiers nail Jesus} to a cross. Finally, because they continued to shout [PRS] so loudly,

Acts 18:17Then the mob outside grabbed the leader of the Jewish meeting place, Sosthenes because they considered that he was responsible for those accusations against Paul. They beat him, right there in front of the courthouse. But Gallio did nothing about it.

Acts 23:10Then the Pharisees and Sadducees argued even more loudly with one another. As a result, the commander ◄was afraid/thought► that they would tear Paul to pieces. So he commanded soldiers to go down from the barracks and forcefully take Paul away from the Council members and bring him up into the barracks. So the soldiers did that.

1 John 3:16The way that we now know how to truly love our fellow believers is by remembering that Christ ◄voluntarily died/gave his life► for us. So, when our fellow believers need something, we should be willing to help them. We should even be willing to die for them.

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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