Job 29:17
By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
In Context
16I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
18Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:35I went out after him, and overcame him, and took it out of his mouth: and if, turning on me, he came at me, I took him by the hair and overcame him and put him to death.
Psalms 3:7\3:6\I will have no fear, though ten thousand have come round me, putting themselves against me.
Psalms 124:3They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:
Proverbs 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.
Matthew Henry on Job 29:8-18
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The… Read the whole commentary →