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Job 13:14

Courage and strengthFear

12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

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 an hypocrite shall not come before him.

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Compare

BSB
Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?
KJV
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
WEB
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
ASV
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?
DARBY
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
BLB
For what do I take up my flesh in my teeth, and my soul do I set in my palm?
ÅB
Hvorfor skulle jeg bære mitt kjøtt mellom mine tenner[^1]? Jeg vil legge mitt liv i min hånd[^2].
OTB
Hvorfor skulle jeg risikere mitt liv,
Og legge mitt liv i mine egne hender?
B1930
Hvorfor skulde jeg bære mitt kjøtt mellem mine tenner? Jeg vil legge mitt liv i min hånd. / < søke å redde mitt liv.> / < sette det på spill.>

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Cross references

  • Judges 12:3

    And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

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  • Psalms 119:109

    My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.

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  • 1 Samuel 19:5

    For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

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  • Job 18:4

    He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

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  • Ecclesiastes 4:5

    The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

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  • 1 Samuel 28:21

    And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.

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  • Isaiah 9:20

    And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

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  • Isaiah 49:26

    And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

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