Job 29:17
I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.
18Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand.
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:35And I went out after him and smote him, and tooke it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by the beard, and smote him, and slue him.
Psalms 3:7O Lord, arise: helpe me, my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies vpon the cheeke bone: thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
Psalms 124:3They had then swallowed vs vp quicke, when their wrath was kindled against vs.
Proverbs 30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth, and the poore 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 →