Job 29:17
15 I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
16 I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
18 So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
19 My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
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Compare
- BSB
- I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
- KJV
- And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- WEB
- I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
- ASV
- And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
- DARBY
- And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- BLB
- And I broke the fangs of the unjust, and I cast away the prey from his teeth.
- ÅB
- Jeg knuste den urettferdiges kjever og rev byttet bort fra hans tenner.
- OTB
- Jeg knuste de ondes kjever,
Og reddet byttet fra deres tenner. - B1930
- Jeg knuste den urettferdiges kjever og rev byttet bort fra hans tenner.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 3:7
Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
Read in contextProverbs 30:14
there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
Read in context1 Samuel 17:35
I went after it, struck it down, and delivered the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur, strike it down, and kill it.
Read in contextPsalms 124:6
Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
Read in contextPsalms 58:8
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
Read in contextPsalms 124:3
when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
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