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10 If you fall apart during a crisis,
    then you weren’t very strong to begin with.
11 Rescue everyone you can of those being taken away and killed,
    and hold on to those innocent souls staggering toward their own slaughter.
12 If you excuse yourself, saying, “Look, we didn’t know anything about this,”
    doesn’t God, who knows what you are really thinking, understand your motives?
Isn’t your Protector aware of why you aren’t protecting the innocent?
    Will He not repay you in kind?

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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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