King James Version
What Does Job 13:14 Mean?
“Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?”
Context
12
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. Hold: Heb. Be silent from me
14
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. maintain: Heb. prove, or, argue
16
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(14) **Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth.**—This is probably the meaning of this verse, which, however, should not be read interrogatively: “At all risks, come what come may, I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.”
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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