Job 29:17

Job's Final Defense

¹⁶ “I was a father to the needy,
And I investigated the case which I did not know.
¹⁷ “I broke the jaws of the wicked
And snatched the prey from his teeth.
¹⁸ “Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest,
And I shall multiply my days as the sand.

Evil One

Job

Psalm 3:7

Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God!
For You have smitten all my enemies on the cheek;
You have shattered the teeth of the wicked.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a kind of man whose teeth are like swords
And his jaw teeth like knives,
To devour the afflicted from the earth
And the needy from among men.

1 Samuel 17:35

I went out after him and attacked him, and rescued it from his mouth; and when he rose up against me, I seized him by his beard and struck him and killed him.

Psalm 58:8

Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along,
Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.

Psalm 124:3

Then they would have swallowed us alive,
When their anger was kindled against us;

Psalm 124:6

Blessed be the Lord,
Who has not given us to be torn by their teeth.