I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
Arise, O Lord! Deliver me, O my God! For thou dost smite all my enemies on the cheek, thou dost break the teeth of the wicked.
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among men.
Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth!
Let them be like the snail which dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.
I went after him and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth; and if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote 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 whelps of the lioness are scattered.
But he saves the fatherless from their mouth, the needy 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 chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones;