Job 13:14
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?
American Standard Version
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, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.
15Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
Cross References
Judges 12:3And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
1 Samuel 28:21And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thy handmaid hath hearkened unto thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.
Psalms 119:109My soul is continually in my hand; Yet do I not forget thy law.
Isaiah 9:20And one 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 →