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21 My friends, you have become like those streams.
    You see my great problem, and you are afraid.

22 I have never said to you, “Give me something to help me.
    Please use some of your money to rescue me.”
23 I have not asked you to save me from the power of my enemy.
    Or to pay cruel people to let me go free.

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21 Now you too have proved to be of no help;
    you see something dreadful and are afraid.(A)
22 Have I ever said, ‘Give something on my behalf,
    pay a ransom(B) for me from your wealth,(C)
23 deliver me from the hand of the enemy,
    rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless’?(D)

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21 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?

23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

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21 For you have now become nothing;
    you see my calamity and are afraid.
22 Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’?
    Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?
23 Or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary's hand’?
    Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of (A)the ruthless’?

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