children: Job 4:10-11, Job 8:4, Job 18:16-19, Job 27:14; Exodus 20:5; Psalms 109:9-15, Psalms 119:155, Psalms 127:5
they are crushed: Job 1:19; Luke 13:4-5
neither: Job 10:7; Psalms 7:2
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Job 5:4
Job 5:4
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