Proverbs 24:12
If 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.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
11If it is unjustly decided that someone must be executed, try hard to rescue them [DOU].
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:7But Yahweh said to Samuel, “No, he is not the one whom I have chosen. Don’t pay attention to his being handsome and very tall, because I have not chosen him. I do not evaluate people as people do. You people evaluate people by their appearance, but I evaluate people by what is in their inner beings.”
Job 34:11He ◄pays back/punishes► people for what they have done; he gives them what they deserve for the way that they have conducted their lives.
Psalms 17:3You know what I think, even at night; you have examined what I say and do, and you know that I have determined to never tell any lies.
Psalms 62:12and that he is the one who faithfully loves us. He rewards every one of us according to the deeds that we do.
Psalms 121:3He will not allow us to fall/stumble; God, who protects us, will not fall asleep.
Proverbs 5:21I say that because Yahweh sees clearly everything that we do; he knows where we are going on the roads that we walk on.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:12-13
Pleasure and Advantages of Wisdom. 11 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; 12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works? Here is, 1. A great duty required of us, and that is to appear for the relief of oppressed innocency. If we see the lives or livelihoods of any in danger of being taken away… Read the whole commentary →