Job 29:17
By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.
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- Ps 3:7 : 7 Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.
- Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.
- Ps 58:8 : 8 Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
- 1 Sam 17:35 : 35 I went out after him, and overcame him, and took it out of his mouth: and if, turning on me, he came at me, I took him by the hair and overcame him and put him to death.
- Ps 124:6 : 6 Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be wounded by their teeth.
- Ps 124:3 : 3 They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:
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