Job 13:14
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
In Context
13Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]!
15Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
Cross References
Judges 12:3And when I saw that ye would not save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah gave them into my hand. Why then are 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 sore troubled, and said to him, Behold, thy bondmaid has hearkened to thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened to thy words which thou spokest to me.
Psalms 119:109My life is continually in my hand; but I do not forget thy law.
Isaiah 9:20and he snatcheth on the right hand, and is hungry, and eateth on the left hand; and they are not satisfied. They 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 →