I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind.
Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth!
Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him.
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;
The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty.
Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,
“Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones,