Key Verse Spotlight
Job 13:14 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?”
Job 13:14
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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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