Job 29

Job · Chapter 29

Job 29:17

1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;5When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;7When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.11When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.19My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.20My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.22After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
and I broke !וָֽ֭אֲשַׁבְּרָהVA-'a-sha-be-rahH7665
to break

שָׁבַר (sha.var) 1) to break, break in pieces 1a) (Qal) 1a1) break, break in or down, rend violently, wreck, crush, quench 1a2) to break, rupture (fig) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be broken, be maimed, be crippled, be wrecked 1b2) to be broken, be crushed (fig) 1c) (Piel) to shatter, break 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to break out, bring to the birth 1e) (Hophal) to be broken, be shattered Aramaic equivalent: te.var (תְּבַר "to break" H8406)

[the] jaws ofמְתַלְּע֣וֹתme-ta-le-'otH4973
tooth

מַלְתָּעָה (mal.ta.ah) 1) tooth, great tooth 1a) teeth, incisors

[the] unrighteousעַוָּ֑ל'a-VALH5767
unjust

עַוָּל (av.val) unjust one, perverse one, unrighteous one

and from teeth hisוּ֝מִשִּׁנָּ֗יוu-mish-shi-NAVH8127G
tooth

שֵׁן (shen) : tooth 1) tooth, ivory 1a) tooth 1a1) of man, lex talionis, beast 1b) tooth, tine (of fork) 1c) ivory 1c1) as material 1c2) of commerce 1d) sharp pointed rock

I threwאַשְׁלִ֥יךְ'ash-LIKHH7993
to throw

שָׁלַךְ (sha.lakh) 1) to throw, cast, hurl, fling 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to throw, cast, throw away, cast off, shed, cast down 1a2) to cast (lots) (fig) 1b) (Hophal) 1b1) to be thrown, be cast 1b2) to be cast forth or out 1b3) to be cast down 1b4) to be cast (metaph)

[the] preyטָֽרֶף׃TA-refH2964
prey

טֶ֫רֶף (te.reph) 1) prey, food, leaf 1a) prey 1b) food 1c) leaf

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.