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13 No, I am utterly helpless,
    without any chance of success.

14 “One should be kind to a fainting friend,
    but you accuse me without any fear of the Almighty.[a]
15 My brothers, you have proved as unreliable as a seasonal brook
    that overflows its banks in the spring

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Footnotes

  1. 6:14 Or friend, / or he might lose his fear of the Almighty.

13 Do I have any power to help myself,(A)
    now that success has been driven from me?

14 “Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend(B)
    forsakes the fear of the Almighty.(C)
15 But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams,(D)
    as the streams that overflow

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13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

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