Proverbs 24:11
If [from] delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter — thou keepest back.
Young's Literal 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
10Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,
Cross References
Job 29:17And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
Isaiah 58:6Is not this 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 every yoke ye draw off?
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 tribunal, and not even for these things was Gallio caring.
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 soldiery, having gone down, to take him by force out of the midst of them, and to bring [him] to the castle.
1 John 3:16in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;
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 →