Job 13:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ I will take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in mine hand?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands [incurring the danger of God's wrath]?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

Common English Bible

¹⁴ For what reason will I take my flesh in my teeth, put my life in jeopardy?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Why do I wound my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?

Job 13:14 Cross References

Job 18:4

You who tear yourself in your anger— shall the earth be forsaken because of you or the rock be removed out of its place?

Psalm 119:109

I hold my life in my hand continually, but I do not forget your law.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

Fools fold their hands and consume their own flesh.

Isaiah 49:26

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the Lord your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

Isaiah 9:20

They gorged on the right but still were hungry, and they devoured on the left but were not satisfied; they devoured the flesh of their own kindred;

Judges 12:3

When I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?”

1 Samuel 19:5

for he took his life in his hand when he attacked the Philistine, and the Lord brought about a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced; why then will you sin against an innocent person by killing David without cause?”

1 Samuel 28:21

The woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, “Your servant has listened to you; I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to what you have said to me.