Job 29:17
And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
Young's Literal Translation
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 I [am] to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.
18And I say, 'With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:35and I have gone out after him, and smitten him, and delivered out of his mouth, and he riseth against me, and I have taken hold on his beard, and smitten him, and put him to death.
Psalms 3:7Rise, O Jehovah! save me, my God. Because Thou hast smitten All mine enemies [on] the cheek. The teeth of the wicked Thou hast broken.
Psalms 124:3Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger against us,
Proverbs 30:14A generation — swords [are] their teeth, And knives — their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from 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 →