Job 13:14
Why do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
Literal 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
13Keep silent from me, and I speak, || And pass over me what will.
15Behold, He slays me—I do not wait! Only, I argue my ways to His face.
Cross References
Judges 12:3and I see that you are not a savior, and I put my life in my hand, and pass over to the sons of Ammon, and YHWH gives them into my hand—and why have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”
1 Samuel 28:21And the woman comes to Saul, and sees that he has been greatly troubled, and says to him, “Behold, your maidservant has listened to your voice, and I put my soul in my hand, and I obey your words which you have spoken to me;
Psalms 119:109My soul [is] in my hand continually, || And I have not forgotten Your law.
Isaiah 9:20And cuts down on the right, and has been hungry, || And he devours on the left, || And they have not been satisfied, || They each devour 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 →