Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And I shall break the biter's teeth of the evil one, and I shall cast the prey from his teeth.
New American Standard Bible
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
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.
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 29:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense
16 I was a father to the needy, and the contention I knew not I shall search it out 17 And I shall break the biter's teeth of the evil one, and I shall cast the prey from his teeth. 18 And saying, I shall expire with my nest I shall multiply days as the sand.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 3:7
Arise, O Jehovah; save me, my God, for thou didst strike all mine enemies upon the cheek; thou didst break the teeth of the unjust.
Proverbs 30:14
A generation, its teeth swords, and its biter's teeth, knives, to devour the poor from the land, and the needy from man.
1 Samuel 17:35
And I went forth after him, and I smote him, and I delivered from his mouth: and he arose upon me and I seized upon his beard, and I struck him and killed him.
Psalm 58:8
As a snail shall melt away he shall go: fire fell; they saw not the sun.
Psalm 124:3
Then they swallowed us down living, in the kindling of their anger against us:
Psalm 124:6
Blessed be Jehovah, who gave us not a prey to their teeth.