Job 13:14
“Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?”
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Job 13:14 Context
12Your remembrances are like vnto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. 13Hold your peace, let me alone that I may speake, and let come on me what will. 14Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 15Though hee slay mee, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintaine mine owne wayes before him. 16Hee also shall be my saluation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
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Other Translations for Job 13:14
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
- King James Version
"Why should I take my flesh in my teeth And put my life in my hands?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?
- American Standard Version (1901)
I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
- Basic English Bible
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
- Darby Bible
Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
- Webster's Bible
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
- World English Bible
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wherefore? I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Job 13:14
13:14 Wherefore - And this may be a reason of his desire of liberty of speech, because he could hold his tongue no longer, but must needs tear himself to pieces, if he had not some vent for his grief. The phrase having his life in his hand, denotes a condition extremely dangerous.