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why would Elisha feel his life was in danger and ask God for help?
Looking at the story it doesn't seem that Elisha feels that his life is in danger or call on God for protection. It looks to me more like anger, than fear:
Then he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.
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