Proverbs 24:10-18

New International Version

¹⁰ If you falter in a time of trouble,
    how small is your strength!^(A)
11 Rescue those being led away to death;
    hold back those staggering toward slaughter.^(B)
12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
    does not he who weighs^(C) the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it?
    Will he not repay^(D) everyone according to what they have done?^(E)

¹³ Eat honey, my son, for it is good;
    honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.
¹⁴ Know also that wisdom is like honey for you:
    If you find it, there is a future hope for you,
    and your hope will not be cut off.^(F)

¹⁵ Do not lurk like a thief near the house of the righteous,
    do not plunder their dwelling place;
¹⁶ for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again,
    but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.^(G)

¹⁷ Do not gloat^(H) when your enemy falls;
    when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice,^(I)
18 or the Lord will see and disapprove
    and turn his wrath away from them.^(J)