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16     A father for the needy,
        and I sought for the cause of whom I did not know.
17     I broke out the fangs of the wicked
        and wrested prey from their jaws.
18     Then I said, “I will pass from this earth in the comfort of my nest.
        My days will be more numerous than a beach’s grains of sand.

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16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

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