Job 29:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 3:7 : 7 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Ps 58:8 : 8 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
  • 1 Sam 17:35 : 35 I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.
  • Ps 124:6 : 6 Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
  • Ps 124:3 : 3 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

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    6Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

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    12The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

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  • Job 19:20
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    35I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.

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    15Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

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    16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.

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    14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

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    29"If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

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    12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

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    18Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

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    29Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

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    9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

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    17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

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    2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

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    14Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

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    12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

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    9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."

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    4I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.