Verse 11
Proverbs 24:11
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
11
Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death forbear not to deliver.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הַ֭צֵּל לְקֻחִ֣ים לַ/מָּ֑וֶת וּ/מָטִ֥ים לַ֝/הֶ֗רֶג אִם תַּחְשֽׂוֹךְ
English Translation
The shadow takes for death, and the kill for murder, if you hold back.
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Chapter 24 Context
1
Seek not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them:
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Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak deceits.
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By wisdom the house shall be built, and by prudence it shall be strengthened.
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By instruction the storerooms shall be filled with all precious and most beautiful wealth.
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A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.
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Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.
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Wisdom is too high for a fool, in the gate he shall not open his mouth.
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He that deviseth to do evils, shall be called a fool.
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The thought of a fool is sin: and the detracter is the abomination of men.
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If thou lose hope being weary in the day of distress, thy strength shall be diminished.
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11
Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death forbear not to deliver.
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If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing...
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Fat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat:
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So also is the doctrine of wisdom to thy soul: which when thou hast found, thou shalt have hope in t...
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15
Lie not in wait, nor seek after wickedness in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest.
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For a just mall shall fall seven times and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evi...
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When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:
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Lest the Lord see, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
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Contend not with the wicked, nor seek to be like the ungodly:
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For evil men have no hope of things to come, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
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My son, fear the Lord and the king: and have nothing to do with detracters.
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For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both?
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These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.
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24
They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall...
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They that rebuke him, shall be praised: and a blessing shall come upon them.
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He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right words.
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Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.
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Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.
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Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.
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I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:
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And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wa...
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Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction.
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Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to r...
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And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.
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