Job 29:17 “I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his tee…”

Job 29:17

I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

World English Bible

I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

American Standard Version

And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

Geneva Bible 1599

I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.

Darby Translation

And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Young's Literal Translation

And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

Bible in Basic English

By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

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Cross references

“I brake”

Psalm 3:7 Proverbs 30:14 Psalm 58:8

Psalm 3:7 · BSB

Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

Proverbs 30:14 · BSB

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.

Psalm 58:8 · BSB

Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

“jaws”

1 Samuel 17:35 Psalm 124:6 Psalm 124:3

1 Samuel 17:35 · BSB

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.

Psalm 124:6 · BSB

Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

Psalm 124:3 · BSB

when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

18So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

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