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Do not reject a suppliant in distress, or turn your face away from the poor.
5
Do not avert your eye from the needy, and give no one reason to curse you;
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for if in bitterness of soul some should curse you, their Creator will hear their prayer.
7
Endear yourself to the congregation; bow your head low to the great.
8
Give a hearing to the poor, and return their greeting politely.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.