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“For your strength does not depend on numbers nor your might on the powerful. But you are the God of the lowly, helper of the oppressed, upholder of the weak, protector of the forsaken, savior of those without hope.
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“Then my oppressed people shouted; my weak people cried out, and the enemy trembled; they lifted up their voices, and the enemy were turned back.
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But let our might be our law of right, for what is weak proves itself to be useless.
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For I am your servant, the son of your female servant, a man who is weak and short-lived, with little understanding of judgment and laws,
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When he prays about possessions and his marriage and children, he is not ashamed to address a lifeless thing. For health he appeals to a thing that is weak;
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and hope, being weaker, prefers ignorance of what causes the torment.
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Like a decoy partridge in a cage, so is the mind of the proud, and like spies they observe your weakness,
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Dejected mind, gloomy face, and wounded heart come from an evil wife. Drooping hands and weak knees come from the wife who does not make her husband happy.
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They cannot save anyone from death or rescue the weak from the strong.
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So he quickly gave orders to withdraw and said to the king, to the commanders of the forces, and to the troops, “Daily we grow weaker, our food supply is scant, the place against which we are fighting is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom press urgently on us.
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Now I was feeling weak, and so I was remembering with affection your esteem and goodwill. On my way back from the region of Persia I suffered an annoying illness, and I have deemed it necessary to take thought for the general security of all.
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The king said to his servants, “Take me away from the battle, for I am very weak.” And immediately his servants took him out of the line of battle.
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care for the injured and the weak, do not ridicule the lame, protect the maimed, and let the blind have a vision of my splendor.
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He answered me and said, “This present world is not the end; the glory of God does not remain in it; therefore those who were strong prayed for the weak.
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I am still weary in mind and very weak in my spirit, and not even a little strength is left in me because of the great fear with which I have been terrified tonight.
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and put away from you mortal thoughts; cast away from you the burdens of humankind, and divest yourself now of your weak nature;
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For the weaker the world becomes through old age, the more shall evils be increased upon its inhabitants.
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You shall be weakened like a wretched woman who is beaten and wounded, so that you cannot receive your mighty lovers.
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No contradiction therefore arises when some persons appear to be dominated by their passions because of the weakness of their reason.