Job 13:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 for 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 thy law.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

The fool folds his hands, and eats his 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 snatch on the right, but are still hungry, and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied; each devours his neighbor's flesh,

Judges 12:3

And 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 and he slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?”

1 Samuel 28:21

And the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, “Behold, your handmaid has hearkened to you; I have taken my life in my hand, and have hearkened to what you have said to me.