Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
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.
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.
Interlinear
Shabar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 29:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense
16 A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out. 17 And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey. 18 And I say, 'With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 3:7
Rise, O Jehovah! save me, my God. Because Thou hast smitten All mine enemies on the cheek. The teeth of the wicked Thou hast broken.
Proverbs 30:14
A generation -- swords are their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men.
1 Samuel 17:35
and I have gone out after him, and smitten him, and delivered out of his mouth, and he riseth against me, and I have taken hold on his beard, and smitten him, and put him to death.
Psalm 58:8
As a snail that melteth he goeth on, As an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
Psalm 124:3
Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger against us,
Psalm 124:6
Blessed is Jehovah who hath not given us, A prey to their teeth.