Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“I broke the jaws of the wicked
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.

Holman Bible

I shattered the fangs of the unjust
and snatched the prey from his teeth.

International Standard Version

I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop the prey."

A Conservative Version

And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“And I smashed the jaws of the wicked
And snatched the prey from his teeth.

Bible in Basic English

By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

Darby Translation

And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Julia Smith Translation

And I shall break the biter's teeth of the evil one, and I shall cast the prey from his teeth.

King James 2000

And I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And I broke [the] evil one's jaw bones, and I made [his] prey drop from his teeth.

Modern King James verseion

I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth.

NET Bible

I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

New Heart English Bible

I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

The Emphasized Bible

And I shivered the fangs of the perverse, - and, out of his teeth, I tare the prey.

Webster

And I broke 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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I brake
שׁבר 
Shabar 
Usage: 148

the jaws
מתלּעה 
M@thall@`ah 
Usage: 3

of the wicked
עוּל 
`avval 
Usage: 5

and plucked
שׁלך 
Shalak 
Usage: 125

the spoil
טרף 
Tereph 
Usage: 22

References

Fausets

Job

Hastings

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense

16 I was a father to the needy; and the cause which I did not know I searched out. 17 “I broke the jaws of the wicked
And snatched the prey from his teeth.
18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.


Cross References

Psalm 3:7

Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God, for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the jawbone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their molars as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the destitute from among men.

1 Samuel 17:35

I went out after him and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth; and if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and smote him and slew him.

Psalm 58:8

As a snail which melts, let them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Psalm 124:3

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

Psalm 124:6

Blessed be the LORD, who did not give us as a prey to their teeth.

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