Proverbs 24:10-12

Words of the Wise

¹⁰ If you _i faint in the day of adversity,
your strength is small.
¹¹ _j Rescue those who are being taken away to death;
hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
¹² If you say, "Behold, we did not know this,"
_k does not he who _l weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who _m keeps watch over your soul know it,
and will he not repay man _n according to his work?

1. Cross References
   Hebrews 12:3
   Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 82:4
   Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
   Isaiah 58:6 - 7
   Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
   
3. Cross References
   Ecclesiastes 5:8
   If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
   
4. Cross References
   Proverbs 16:2
   All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.
   1 Samuel 16:7
   But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
   
5. Cross References
   Psalms 91:11
   For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
   
6. Cross References
   Job 34:11
   For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.