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10 If you faint in a crisis, you are weak.
11 Rescue captives condemned to death,
    and spare those staggering toward their slaughter.
12 When you say, “We didn’t know this,”
    won’t the one who weighs hearts take note of it?
    Won’t the one who guards your soul know it?
    Won’t he pay back people for what they do?

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Saying 25

10 If you falter in a time of trouble,
    how small is your strength!(A)
11 Rescue those being led away to death;
    hold back those staggering toward slaughter.(B)
12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
    does not he who weighs(C) the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it?
    Will he not repay(D) everyone according to what they have done?(E)

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