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Job 29:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. "
Job 29:17
Verse in Context
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15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
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Job 29:1
"Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,"
Job 29:2
"Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved"
Job 29:3
"When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;"
Job 29:4
"As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;"
Job 29:5
"When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about"
Job 29:6
"When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;"
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