Job 13:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 12:3 : 3 When I saw that you were not going to help, I risked my life and advanced against the Ammonites, and the LORD handed them over to me. Why have you come up to fight with me today?”
  • 1 Sam 19:5 : 5 He risked his life when he struck down the Philistine and the LORD gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”
  • 1 Sam 28:21 : 21 When the woman came to Saul and saw how terrified he was, she said to him,“Your servant has done what you asked. I took my life into my own hands and did what you told me.
  • Ps 119:109 : 109 My life is in continual danger, but I do not forget your law.
  • Eccl 4:5 : 5 The fool folds his hands and does no work, so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.
  • Isa 9:20 : 20 They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!
  • Isa 49:26 : 26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. Then all humankind will recognize that I am the LORD, your deliverer, your protector, the Powerful One of Jacob.”
  • Job 18:4 : 4 You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

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    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

    20Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face:

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    20My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.

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    22then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let my arm be broken off at the socket.

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    34who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

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    26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

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