He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.

He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.

They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.

The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.