Study Desk

If you show yourself lacking courage on the day of distress, Your strength is meager.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

Rescue those who are being taken away to death, And those who are staggering to the slaughter, Oh hold them back!

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

If you say, "See, we did not know this," Does He who weighs the hearts not consider it? And does He who watches over your soul not know it? And will He not repay a person according to his work?

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?