Proverbs Chapter 24 verse 11 Holy Bible
Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back.
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Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.
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Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter.
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If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
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Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
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If `from' delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter -- thou keepest back.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 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).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) If thou forbear . . .--Rather, Deliver those that are taken to death, and those that are tottering to the slaughter, stop them!
