Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their 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.
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.
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
Shabar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 29:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense
16 I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently. 17 I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth. 18 "Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 3:7
Arise, LORD, and help me, O my God: for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Proverbs 30:14
This peoples' teeth are swords, and with their jawbones they consume and devour the simple of the earth, and the poor from among men.
1 Samuel 17:35
And I went out after him and smote him, and took it out of his mouth. And when he arose against me, I caught him by the beard and smote him and slew him.
Psalm 58:8
Let them consume away like a snail, and like the untimely fruit of a woman; and let them not see the sun.
Psalm 124:3
they had swallowed us up alive, when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.
Psalm 124:6
But praised be the LORD, which hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.