Job 29:17

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 3:7 : 7 Arise, O Jehovah; Save me, O my God: For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; Thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are [as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Ps 58:8 : 8 [ Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
  • 1 Sam 17:35 : 35 I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth; and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
  • Ps 124:6 : 6 Blessed be Jehovah, Who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
  • Ps 124:3 : 3 Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;

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