Proverbs 24:11
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
Proverbs 24:11 in other translations
| BSB | Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter. |
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| WEB | Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! |
| ASV | Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back. |
| YLT | If from delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter--thou keepest back. |
| DARBY | Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter. |
| BBE | Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction. |
| Webster | If thou forbearest to deliver them that are drawn to death, and those that are ready to be slain; |
What does Proverbs 24:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 24:11-12
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 24:11-12
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Proverbs 24:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 24:11
- Psalms 82:4
Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
- Isaiah 58:6-7
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
- 1 John 3:16-17
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
- Job 29:17
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- Luke 10:31-32
And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
- 1 Samuel 26:8-9
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time. And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless?
- Luke 23:23-25
And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required. And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
- Acts 18:17
Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.
- Acts 21:31-32
And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
- Acts 23:23-35
And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Cesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night; And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor. And he wrote a letter after this manner: Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting. …
- Acts 23:10
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
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Context
- Proverbs 24:10
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
- Proverbs 24:11
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
- Proverbs 24:12
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?
Proverbs 24:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si dejares de librar los que son tomados para la muerte, y los que son llevados al degolladero; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Délivre ceux qui sont menés à la mort, et ne te retire pas de ceux qui chancellent vers une mort violente. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Errette, die zum Tode geschleppt werden, und die zur Würgung hinwanken, o halte sie zurück! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Erue eos qui ducuntur ad mortem, et qui trahuntur ad interitum, liberare ne cesses. |