Job 29:16-18

Lexham English Bible

¹⁶ I was a father to the poor,
and I investigated the stranger’s^[a] legal dispute.
¹⁷ And I broke the evil one’s jaw bones,
and I made his prey drop from his teeth.
¹⁸ “And I thought, ‘I will pass away in my nest,
and like the phoenix I shall multiply my days.