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Job 29:17
Job 29:17 is verse 17 of Job chapter 29, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
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.
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Job 29:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
16 I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
17 I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
18 So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
19 My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 3:7Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
Proverbs 30:14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
1 Samuel 17:35I 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.
Psalms 124:3when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
Psalms 124:6Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.