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People’s riches serve as ransom for their lives,
    but the poor do not even hear a threat.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 13:8 Related to v. 7. Possessions enable the wealthy to pay ransom but the poor are “protected” by lack of possessions: they never hear the threat of the pursuer. Cf. the use of the word “threat” in Is 30:17.

Wealth is a ransom for a person’s life,
    but the poor get no threats.

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The rich have to use their money to save their lives, but no one threatens the poor.

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The ransom of a person’s life is his wealth,
But the poor hears no rebuke.

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A person’s riches may ransom their life,
    but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.(A)

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