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23     I know where this ends.
        You will send me off to death
        and usher me to that meetinghouse where all the living one day go.

24     And yet does not a person trapped in ruins stretch out his hand,
        and in this disaster does he not cry out for help?[a]
25     Did I not grieve for the hard days of another
        or weep for the pains of the poor?

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Footnotes

  1. 30:24 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

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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23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

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