Job 29:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made them drop their prey from their teeth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And I brake the jaws of the wicked, And plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And I broke the jaws or the big teeth of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ I shattered the fangs of the wicked, rescued prey from their teeth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ I crushed the jaws of the impious, and I took away prey from his teeth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ I broke the jaws of the wicked man: and out of his teeth I took away the prey.

Job 29:17 Cross References

Job 29:18

Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days like the phoenix;

Job 33:19

They are also chastened with pain upon their beds and with continual strife in their bones,

Job 4:11

The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

Job 5:15

But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth, from the hand of the mighty.

Psalm 124:3

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

Psalm 124:6

Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

Psalm 3:7

Rise up, O Lord! Deliver me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.

Proverbs 30:14

there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.

1 Samuel 17:35

I went after it and struck it down, rescuing the lamb from its mouth, and if it turned against me, I would catch it by the jaw, strike it down, and kill it.