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10 If you (A)are slack in the day of trouble,
Your strength is in trouble.

11 (B)Deliver those who are being taken away to death,
And those who are stumbling to the slaughter, Oh hold them back.
12 If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,”
Does not He (C)who weighs the hearts (D)understand?
And (E)does not He who (F)guards your soul know?
And will not He [a](G)render to man according to his work?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 24:12 Lit bring back

10 If you faint in the day of adversity,
    your strength being small;(A)
11 if you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death,
    those who go staggering to the slaughter;(B)
12 if you say, “Look, we did not know this”—
    does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it?
    And will he not repay all according to their deeds?(C)

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