A person’s spirit ¹  sustains him through sickness – but who can bear ²  a crushed spirit? ³ 

Do not exploit ¹  a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court, ² 

A poor person ¹  who oppresses the weak is like ²  a driving rain without food. ³ 

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

I said, “Sovereign Lord, stop! How can Jacob survive? ¹  He is too weak!” ² 

Listen to this, you who trample ¹  the needy, and do away with ²  the destitute in the land.

They ¹  devour widows’ property, ²  and as a show make long prayers. These men will receive a more severe punishment.”

They ¹  devour ²  widows’ property, ³  and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment.”

On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,

For God achieved what the law could not do because ¹  it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Asa prayed ¹  to the Lord his God: “O Lord, there is no one but you who can help the weak when they are vastly outnumbered. ²  Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you and have marched on your behalf against this huge army. ³  O Lord our God, don’t let men prevail against you!” ⁴ 

Men were assigned to take the prisoners and find clothes among the plunder for those who were naked. ¹  So they clothed them, supplied them with sandals, gave them food and drink, and provided them with oil to rub on their skin. ²  They put the ones who couldn’t walk on donkeys. ³  They brought them back to their brothers at Jericho, ⁴  the city of the date palm trees, and then returned to Samaria.

Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull ¹  nor had his vitality ²  departed.

Eli’s eyes had begun to fail, so that he was unable to see well. At that time he was lying down in his place,

Another battle was fought between the Philistines and Israel. So David went down with his soldiers ¹  and fought the Philistines. David became exhausted.

Ahab’s entire family will die. I ¹  will cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. ² 

The Lord saw Israel’s intense suffering; ¹  everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer. ² 

The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; ¹  the oppressed are trapped ²  by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up. ³ 

Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim ¹  from suffering. ²  I have lost my strength. ³ 

For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. ¹  My strength fails me because of ²  my sin, and my bones become brittle. ³