Job 29:17
And I shivered the fangs of the perverse,—and, out of his teeth, I tare the prey.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
In Context
16A father, was, I, to the needy, and, as for the cause which I knew not, I used to search it out;
18Then said I, Like a stem, shall I grow old, yea, as the sand, shall I multiply days:
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:35and I would go out after him, and smite him, and rescue it out of his mouth,—and, if he rose against me, I would catch him by his beard, and smite him, and slay him.
Psalms 3:7Rise! Yahweh, Save me, my God. Surely thou hast smitten all my foes on the cheekbone, The teeth of the lawless, hast thou broken.
Psalms 124:3Then, alive, had they swallowed us up, in the glow of their anger against us;
Proverbs 30:14A generation! Swords, are its teeth, and, knives, its incisors,—to devour the humbled out of the earth, and the needy, 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 →