Job 29:17-19

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁷ I broke the fangs of the unrighteous,
    and made them drop their prey from their teeth.
¹⁸ Then I thought, “I shall die in my nest,
    and I shall multiply my days like the phoenix;^[a]
19 my roots spread out to the waters,
    with the dew all night on my branches;