King James Version
Job 13:14 in the King James Version says “Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?” — study this verse from Job chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?”
Job 13:14 · KJV
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. Hold: Heb. Be silent from me
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. maintain: Heb. prove, or, argue
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
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above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“Wherefore do I take”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
“my flesh”
H1320flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man
“my life”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
“and put”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“in mine hand”
H3709the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-
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