
Text -- Proverbs 24:11 (NET)




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When it is in thy power.
Neglect of known duty is sin (Jam 4:17).

JFB: Pro 24:11-12 - -- That is, unjustly. God's retributive justice cannot be avoided by professed ignorance.
That is, unjustly. God's retributive justice cannot be avoided by professed ignorance.
Clarke -> Pro 24:11
Clarke: Pro 24:11 - -- If thou forbear to deliver - If thou seest the innocent taken by the hand of lawless power or superstitious zeal, and they are about to be put to de...
If thou forbear to deliver - If thou seest the innocent taken by the hand of lawless power or superstitious zeal, and they are about to be put to death, thou shouldst rise up in their behalf, boldly plead for them, testify to their innocence when thou knowest it; and thus thou wilt not be guilty of blood; which thou wouldst be, if, through any pretense, thou shouldst neglect to save the life of a man unjustly condemned.
TSK -> Pro 24:11
TSK: Pro 24:11 - -- 1Sa 26:8, 1Sa 26:9; Job 29:17; Psa 82:4; Isa 58:6, Isa 58:7; Luk 10:31, Luk 10:32, Luk 23:23-25; Act 18:17, Act 21:31, Act 21:32, Act 23:10, Act 23:23...

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Barnes -> Pro 24:11
Barnes: Pro 24:11 - -- Literally: "Deliver those that are drawn unto death, And those who totter to the slaughter - if Thou withdraw ..." i. e., "O withdraw them,"save...
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.
Poole -> Pro 24:11
Poole: Pro 24:11 - -- To deliver them when it is in thy power to do it lawfully.
Drawn unto death to wit, unjustly, or by the violence of lawless men.
That are ready to...
To deliver them when it is in thy power to do it lawfully.
Drawn unto death to wit, unjustly, or by the violence of lawless men.
That are ready to be slain that are in present danger of death or destruction.
Haydock -> Pro 24:11
Haydock: Pro 24:11 - -- Deliver. The Jews often put people to death without any formal trial, pretending zeal, as they did St. Stephen, &c. Our Saviour rescued the adult...
Deliver. The Jews often put people to death without any formal trial, pretending zeal, as they did St. Stephen, &c. Our Saviour rescued the adulteress from such a situation, as Daniel had done Susanna. Yet this text may regard poor debtors, Psalm lxxi. 4. (Calmet) ---
Christian bishops used all their influence to preserve the lives of those who did not deserve death. (St. Ambrose in Psalm cxviii. Ser. viii. Off. i. 36., and ep. xxv., and xxvi.)
Gill -> Pro 24:11
Gill: Pro 24:11 - -- If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death,.... Or "taken for or unto death" h, in a violent way; who are taken by thieves and robbers...
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death,.... Or "taken for or unto death" h, in a violent way; who are taken by thieves and robbers, and used in a barbarous manner, as the man in the parable, whom the priest and Levite took no notice of, and was helped by the good Samaritan; or who are unjustly sentenced and appointed to death by the civil magistrate; if any know their innocency, it becomes them to do all they can to save their lives, by bearing a testimony for them; for "a true witness delivereth souls", Pro 14:25; or by interceding for them, and giving counsel and advice concerning them, or by any lawful way they can; as Reuben delivered Joseph, Jonathan interceded for David, and Ahikam and Ebedmelech for Jeremiah. Life is valuable, and all means should be taken to save it, and to prevent the shedding of innocent blood; and a man should not forbear or spare any cost, or pains, or time, to such service: likewise such as are drawn into snares and temptations, into immorality or heresy, which tend to the ruin of the souls of men, and bring them to eternal death; all proper, methods should be taken to restore such persons, to recover them out of the snare of the devil, which is saving souls from death, and covering a multitude of sins; see 2Ti 2:25, Jam 5:19;
and those that are ready to be slain; or i "bending to slaughter"; are within a little of being executed, or put to death, upon a false accusation; for about others that suffer righteously there need not be that concern here pressed, or whose works and ways incline to destruction and lead to it, of which they seem not very far off.

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NET Notes: Pro 24:11 God holds people responsible for rescuing those who are in mortal danger. The use of “death” and “slaughter” seems rather stro...
Geneva Bible -> Pro 24:11
Geneva Bible: Pro 24:11 If thou refraineth to deliver [them that are] drawn to ( c ) death, and [those that are] ready to be slain;
( c ) No one can be excused, if he does n...

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Maclaren -> Pro 24:11-12
Maclaren: Pro 24:11-12 - --The Crime Of Negligence
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; 12. If thou sayest, Behold, ...
MHCC -> Pro 24:11-12
MHCC: Pro 24:11-12 - --If a man know that his neighbour is in danger by any unjust proceeding, he is bound to do all in his power to deliver him. And what is it to suffer im...
Matthew Henry -> Pro 24:11-12
Matthew Henry: Pro 24:11-12 - -- Here is, 1. A great duty required of us, and that is to appear for the relief of oppressed innocency. If we see the lives or livelihoods of any in d...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 24:11-12
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 24:11-12 - --
Now, again, we meet with proverbs of several lines. The first here is a hexastich:
11 Deliver them that are taken to death,
And them that are tott...
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