²³ Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?

⁴⁸ After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers,

⁸ And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

²⁰ When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

⁷ Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;

⁸ (Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)

¹⁵ But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

² Let those whose cause the Lord has taken up say so, his people whom he has taken out of the hands of their haters;

²¹ I will keep you safe from the hands of the evil-doers, and I will give you salvation from the hands of the cruel ones.