Job 29:16-18

Complete Jewish Bible

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy,
and I investigated the problems of those I didn’t know.
¹⁷ I broke the jaws of the unrighteous
and snatched the prey from his teeth.
¹⁸ “I said, ‘I will die with my nest,
and I will live as long as a phoenix;