Job’s Former Blessings
Job 29:17
In 11 translations
- 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.the jaws: Heb. the jawteeth, or, the grindersplucked: Heb. cast
- 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.
- LSV
- And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, || And from his teeth I cast away prey.
- YLT
- And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
- DBY
- And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- DRC
- I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
- GNV
- I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.
- JPS
- And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
- LXXE
- And I broke the jaw-teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- וָֽ֭אֲשַׁבְּרָה מְתַלְּע֣וֹת עַוָּ֑ל וּ֝מִשִּׁנָּ֗יו אַשְׁלִ֥יךְ טָֽרֶף׃
- LXX-Br
- Συνέτριψα δὲ μύλας ἀδίκων, ἐκ μέσου τῶν ὀδόντων αὐτῶν ἅρπαγμα ἐξήρπασα.
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
Cheek TeethPopularityCheek; CheekboneJaw; Jawbone; Jaw TeethBeneficenceProverbs, the Book ofJob, Book of
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 3:7Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
- Proverbs 30:14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
- Psalms 124:6Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
- 1 Samuel 17:35I 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.
- Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
- Psalms 124:3when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
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