Job 13:14
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
In Context
13Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
15Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
Cross References
Judges 12:3And when I saw that ye did not save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed opposite the sons of Ammon, and LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have ye come up to me this day, to fight against me?
1 Samuel 28:21And the woman came to Saul, and saw that he was greatly troubled, and said to him, Behold, thy handmaid has hearkened to thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened to thy words which thou spoke to me.
Psalms 119:109My soul is continually in my hand, yet I do not forget thy law.
Isaiah 9:20And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry. And he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied. They shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm--
Matthew Henry on Job 13:14-23
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. 16 He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him. 17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. 18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I… Read the whole commentary →