Job 29:16-18

Revised Standard Version

¹⁶ I was a father to the poor,
    and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.
¹⁷ I broke the fangs of the unrighteous,
    and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
¹⁸ Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest,
    and I shall multiply my days as the sand,