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23 Soon he will send me home
to the world of the dead,
    where we all must go.

24 No one refuses help to others,
    when disaster strikes.[a]
25 I mourned for the poor
    and those who suffered.

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Footnotes

  1. 30.24 strikes: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 24.

23 I know you will bring me down to death,(A)
    to the place appointed for all the living.(B)

24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man(C)
    when he cries for help in his distress.(D)
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble?(E)
    Has not my soul grieved for the poor?(F)

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