Job 13:14
Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?
BSB
ASV
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?
KJV
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth,.... Or bite my lips, to keep in my words, and refrain from speaking?
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth - A proverbial expression. I risk every thing on the justice of my cause. I put my life in my hand, 1Sa 28:21. I run all hazards; I am fearless of the consequences.
A proverb for, "Why should I anxiously desire to save my life?" [EICHORN]. The image in the first clause is that of a wild beast, which in order to preserve his prey, carries it in his teeth.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Judges 12:3When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to…
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He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
When the woman came to Saul and saw how distraught he was, she said to him, “Look, your maidservant has obeyed your voice. I took my life in my hands and did as you…
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Psalms 119:109I constantly take my life in my hands, yet I do not forget Your law.
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When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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1 Samuel 19:5He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against…
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But Saul ordered, “No one shall be put to death this day, for today the LORD has worked salvation in Israel.”
But Eleazar and David stationed themselves in the middle of the field and defended it. They struck down the Philistines, and the LORD brought about a great victory.
for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”
“Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”