Job 29:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 3:7 : 7 Rise, O Jehovah! save me, my God. Because Thou hast smitten All mine enemies `on' the cheek. The teeth of the wicked Thou hast broken.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 A generation -- swords `are' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among' men.
  • Ps 58:8 : 8 As a snail that melteth he goeth on, `As' an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
  • 1 Sam 17:35 : 35 and I have gone out after him, and smitten him, and delivered out of his mouth, and he riseth against me, and I have taken hold on his beard, and smitten him, and put him to death.
  • Ps 124:6 : 6 Blessed `is' Jehovah who hath not given us, A prey to their teeth.
  • Ps 124:3 : 3 Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger against us,

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  • Job 29:15-16
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    15Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame `am' I.

    16A father I `am' to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.

  • 6O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

  • 14A generation -- swords `are' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among' men.

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    7Rise, O Jehovah! save me, my God. Because Thou hast smitten All mine enemies `on' the cheek. The teeth of the wicked Thou hast broken.

  • Job 29:11-13
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    11For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth `to' me.

    12For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

    13The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.

  • 12The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

  • 10The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.

  • 20To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.

  • 35and I have gone out after him, and smitten him, and delivered out of his mouth, and he riseth against me, and I have taken hold on his beard, and smitten him, and put him to death.

  • 15Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

  • 16And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.

  • 14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?

  • 29If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

  • 12At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

  • 18And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'

  • 29Because of thy anger towards Me, And thy noise -- it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And I have caused thee to turn back In the way in which thou camest.

  • Job 31:21-22
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    21If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in `him' the gate of my court,

    22My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

  • 9His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.

  • Ps 35:15-16
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    15And -- in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased;

    16With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth.

  • 9They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

  • 41If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me -- I repay!

  • 39the torn I have not brought in unto thee -- I, I repay it -- from my hand thou dost seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night;

  • 13They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.

  • 17And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

  • 23For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.

  • 11My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.

  • 9Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

  • 14And my hand as to a nest Getteth to the wealth of the peoples, And as a gathering of forsaken eggs All the earth I -- I have gathered, And there hath not been one moving wing, Or opening mouth, or whispering.'

  • 17For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.

  • 38I pursue mine enemies and destroy them, And I turn not till they are consumed.

  • 6For a nation hath come up on my land, Strong, and there is no number, Its teeth `are' the teeth of a lion, And it hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

  • 28Because of thine anger towards Me, And thy noise -- it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And have caused thee to turn back, In the way in which thou camest.

  • 17And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,

  • 42And I beat them as dust before wind, As mire of the streets I empty them out.

  • 31The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.

  • 8I do meet them as a bereaved bear, And I rend the enclosure of their heart.

  • 2To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

  • 9The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: --

  • 10All my bones say, `Jehovah, who is like Thee, Delivering the poor from the stronger than he, And the poor and needy from his plunderer.'

  • 14The doors of his face who hath opened? Round about his teeth `are' terrible.

  • 29In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

  • 12The lion is tearing parts `for' his whelps, And is strangling for his lionesses, And he doth fill `with' prey his holes, And his habitations `with' rapine.

  • 9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

  • 41And mine enemies -- Thou givest to me the neck, Those hating me -- and I cut them off.

  • 4And I have put hooks in thy jaws, And I have caused the fish of thy floods to cleave to thy scales, And I have caused thee to come up from the midst of thy floods, And every fish of thy floods to thy scales doth cleave.