16 They gave strength for their feebleness and light to their eyes: (ODE)
Odes of Solomon 6:16
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Sirach 34:16–18
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Job 4:3–5
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Job 29:14–16
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Wisdom of Solomon 18:1–2
1 But for your holy ones there was great light. Their enemies, hearing their voice but not seeing their form, counted it a happy thing that they too had suffered, (WEB) 2 yet for that they do not hurt them, though wronged by them before, they are thankful; and because t… (WEB)
Sirach 17:10–12
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