Job 13:14
Whatever it may cost, I will take my flesh in my teeth, and my life will I put in my hand.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
In Context
13Keep silence toward me, that I may indeed speak, and let pass over me what will.
15Lo, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: only I will argue my own ways before him.
Cross References
Judges 12:3And when I saw that ye helped me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over to the children of 'Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hand; and why 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 greatly terrified; and she said unto him, Behold, thy hand-maid hath obeyed thy voice; and I put my life in my hand, and hearkened unto thy words which thou spokest unto me.
Psalms 119:109My life is in my hand continually: yet thy law do I not forget.
Isaiah 9:20(9:19) And he snatcheth on the right hand, and is [yet] hungry; and he eateth on the left hand, and are not [yet] 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 →