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16 If poor people needed help,
    I helped them like their father would do.
I spoke on behalf of strangers
    to help them get justice.
17 I destroyed the power of wicked people.
    I rescued the people that they had attacked.

18 At that time, I thought,
“I will live to be an old man.
    After a long life, I will die in my own home.

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16 I was a father to the needy;(A)
    I took up the case(B) of the stranger.(C)
17 I broke the fangs of the wicked
    and snatched the victims(D) from their teeth.(E)

18 “I thought, ‘I will die in my own house,
    my days as numerous as the grains of sand.(F)

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