Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. New Living Translation Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to die; save them as they stagger to their death. English Standard Version Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. Berean Study Bible Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter. King James Bible If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; New King James Version Deliver those who are drawn toward death, And hold back those stumbling to the slaughter. New American Standard Bible Rescue those who are being taken away to death, And those who are staggering to the slaughter, Oh hold them back! NASB 1995 Deliver those who are being taken away to death, And those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back. NASB 1977 Deliver those who are being taken away to death, And those who are staggering to slaughter, O hold them back. Amplified Bible Rescue those who are being taken away to death, And those who stagger to the slaughter, Oh hold them back [from their doom]! Christian Standard Bible Rescue those being taken off to death, and save those stumbling toward slaughter. Holman Christian Standard Bible Rescue those being taken off to death, and save those stumbling toward slaughter. American Standard Version Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Deliver those that are being led to death and do not spare to save those that are being held to kill. Brenton Septuagint Translation Deliver them that are led away to death, and redeem them that are appointed to be slain; spare not thy help. Contemporary English Version Don't fail to rescue those who are doomed to die. Douay-Rheims Bible Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death forbear not to deliver. Good News Translation Don't hesitate to rescue someone who is about to be executed unjustly. International Standard Version Rescue those who are being led away to death, and save those who stumble toward slaughter. JPS Tanakh 1917 Deliver them that are drawn unto death; And those that are ready to be slain wilt thou forbear to rescue? Literal Standard Version If [from] delivering those taken to death, And you take back those slipping to the slaughter. New American Bible Did you fail to rescue those who were being dragged off to death, those tottering, those near death, NET Bible Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter. New Revised Standard Version if you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death, those who go staggering to the slaughter; New Heart English Bible Rescue those who are being led away to death. Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter. World English Bible Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! Young's Literal Translation If from delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter -- thou keepest back. Additional Translations ... Context Do not Envy…10If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength! 11Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter. 12If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?… Cross References Psalm 82:4 Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked. Psalm 88:15 From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair. Isaiah 58:6 Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke? Isaiah 58:7 Isn't it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Treasury of Scripture If you forbear to deliver them that are drawn to death, and those that are ready to be slain; 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… Job 29:17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. Psalm 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
(11) If thou forbear . . .--Rather, Deliver those that are taken to death, and those that are tottering to the slaughter, stop them!Verses 11, 12. - A hexastich, inculcating humanity on the ground of God's omniscience. Verse 11. - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death. The sentence is not conditional, אם in the second line being equivalent to לוּ, utinam, "oh that!" "would that!" So the first hemistich should be rendered, "Deliver them that are haled to death," and the second, "And those that are tottering to slaughter, oh, hold them back!" The sentence is somewhat obscure, but Cheyne well explains it thus: "Some victims of a miscarriage of justice are about to be dragged away to execution, and the disciple of wisdom is exhorted to use his endeavours to deliver them" ('Job and Solomon'). In the case supposed a moral obligation lies on the pious and well-informed to save a human life unjustly imperilled. At the same time, there is nothing in the passage which absolutely, shows that the punishment of the guiltless is here deprecated; it looks rather as if Wisdom had no pleasure in the death of men, innocent or not, and that the victims of an extreme sentence claimed pity at her hands, whatever might be the circumstances of the verdict. Septuagint, "Deliver those that are being led away to death, and redeem (ἐκπρίου) those that are appointed to be slain; spare not (to help them)" (comp. Psalm 82:3, 4). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Rescueהַ֭צֵּל (haṣ·ṣêl) Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 5337: To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver those being led away לְקֻחִ֣ים (lə·qu·ḥîm) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural Strong's 3947: To take to death, לַמָּ֑וֶת (lam·mā·weṯ) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin and restrain תַּחְשֽׂוֹךְ׃ (taḥ·śō·wḵ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 2820: To restrain, refrain, to refuse, spare, preserve, to observe those stumbling וּמָטִ֥ים (ū·mā·ṭîm) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 4131: To waver, to slip, shake, fall toward the slaughter. לַ֝הֶ֗רֶג (la·he·reḡ) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2027: A slaughter Jump to Previous Carried Death Deliver Delivering Destruction Drawn Forbear Forbearest Forth Help Hold Indeed Led Ready Rescue Saviour Slain Slaughter Slipping Stagger Staggering Wilt WithdrawJump to Next Carried Death Deliver Delivering Destruction Drawn Forbear Forbearest Forth Help Hold Indeed Led Ready Rescue Saviour Slain Slaughter Slipping Stagger Staggering Wilt WithdrawLinks Proverbs 24:11 NIVProverbs 24:11 NLT Proverbs 24:11 ESV Proverbs 24:11 NASB Proverbs 24:11 KJV Proverbs 24:11 BibleApps.com Proverbs 24:11 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 24:11 Chinese Bible Proverbs 24:11 French Bible Proverbs 24:11 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 24:11 Rescue those who are being led away (Prov. Pro Pr) |
   
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