Proverbs 24:11 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 24:11

Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back.

KJV

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

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Commentary

2 voices

John Cassian

CONFERENCE 2:13 (435)

And so learn from your own experience to sympathize with those in trouble, and never to terrify with destructive despair those who are in danger, nor harden them with severe speeches, but rather restore them with gentle and kindly consolations, and as the wise Solomon says, "Spare not to deliver those who are led forth to death, and to redeem those who are to be slain," and after the example of our Saviour, break not the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax, and ask of the Lord that grace, by means of which you yourself may faithfully learn both in deed and power to sing: "the Lord hath given me a learned tongue that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary."

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Literally: “Deliver those that are drawn unto death, And those who totter to the slaughter - if Thou withdraw ...” i. e., “O withdraw them,” save them from their doom; in contrast to Pro 24:10. The structure and meaning are both somewhat obscure; but the sentence is complete in itself, and is not a mere hypothesis concluded in the following verses.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הַ֭צֵּל	Ha.tzel	deliver	H5337 →
לְקֻחִ֣ים	le.ku.Chim	[those being] taken	H3947 →
לַמָּ֑וֶת	la.Ma.vet	to <the> death	H4194 →
וּמָטִ֥ים	u.ma.Tim	and [those who] are staggering	H4131 →
לַ֝הֶ֗רֶג	la.He.reg	to the slaughter	H2027 →
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
תַּחְשֽׂוֹךְ׃	tach.Sokh	you will restrain	H2820 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.
leads to
- Proverbs 24:11–12
  Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
- Job 29:12
  because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
- Job 5:15–16
  He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
- Psalms 140:12
  I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.
- Psalms 72:12–14
  For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
Through
Job 29:17
I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
leads to
- Psalms 3:7
  Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
- Proverbs 30:14
  there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
- Psalms 124:6
  Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

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King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Proverbs

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Proverbs