21 So this is what you have now become to me.[a]
When you see something dreadful, you are afraid.
22 Have I ever said: “Give me something”
or “Pay a bribe for me from your wealth”
23 or “Deliver me from the enemy’s power”
or “Redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless”?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:21 Alt Hb tradition reads So you have now become nothing

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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