Proverbs 30:14

Bishops' Bible (1568)

There is a generation whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as knyues, to deuour the poore from of the earth, & the needy from among men.

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  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among Lions, and I lye among those that are set on fire: among the children of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword.
  • Ps 3:7 : 7 Arise vp O God, saue thou me O my Lorde: for thou hast smitten all myne enemies vpon the cheeke bone, thou hast broken the teeth of the vngodly.
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Do not all the workers of iniquitie know, deuouryng my people as though they deuoured bread: that they call not vpon God?
  • Job 29:17 : 17 I brake the iawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the spoyle out of his teeth.
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Heare this, O ye that swallow vp the poore, that ye may make the needy of the lande to fayle,
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 So I turned me, and considered all the violent wrong that is done vnder the sunne: and beholde the teares of such as were oppressed, and there was no man to comfort them, or that woulde deliuer and defende them from the violence of their oppressours.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He sitteth lurkyng in theeuishe corners of the streates: and priuily in lurking dennes he doth murther the innocent, he eyeth diligently hym that is weake. 9 He lieth in wayte lurking as a Lion in his denne: he lyeth in wayte lurkyng, that he may violently carry away the afflicted, he doth carry away violentlye the afflicted, in halyng hym into his net.
  • Rev 9:8 : 8 And they had heere as the heere of women, & their teeth were as ye teeth of Lions.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 For the calamities of the oppressed, for the deepe sighyng of the poore, I wyll nowe vp sayeth God: and I wyll put in safetie, hym whom the wicked hath snared.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.
  • Ps 58:6 : 6 Breake their teeth O Lorde in their mouthes: smite a sunder the chawe bones of Lions O God.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 Who so doth a poore man wrong, to increase his owne riches and geueth vnto the ryche, at the last commeth to pouertie hym selfe.
  • Prov 28:3 : 3 One poore man oppressing another by violence, is like a raging rayne that destroyeth the fruite.
  • Isa 32:7 : 7 The weapons of the churlishe are euyll, he deuiseth noysome deuises, that he may beguyle the poore with deceiptfull wordes, yea euen there as he should geue sentence with the poore.
  • Dan 7:5-7 : 5 Behold an other beast, which was the second, was lyke a beare, and stoode vpon the one side: betwixt his teeth in his mouth he had three ribbes, and it was saide vnto him thus: Arise, eate vp much fleshe. 6 Then I loked, and beholde, there was an other lyke vnto a leopard, this had winges as a foule, euen foure vpon the backe: this beast had foure heads, and there was power geuen him. 7 After this I saw in a vision by night, & beholde, the fourth beast was grimme and horrible, and marueylous strong: it had great iron teeth, it deuoured & destroyed, & stamped the residue vnder his feete, it was vnlike yt other beastes that were before it, for it had ten hornes.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 They gape for breath ouer the head of the poore in the dust of the earth, & peruert the way of the meke: A man and his father will go in to one mayde, to dishonour my holy name.
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Heare this worde ye kyne of Basan, that are in the mountaine of Samaria, which oppresse the poore, & destroy the needy, which say to their maisters, Bring and let vs drinke.
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Wo vnto them that imagine iniquitie, and worke wickednesse vpon their beddes: when the morning is light they practise it, because their hande hath power. 2 And they couet fieldes, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.
  • Mic 3:1-5 : 1 And I saide, heare I pray you O heads of Iacob, & ye princes of the house of Israel, shoulde not ye know iudgement? 2 But they hate the good, and loue the euill, they plucke of their skinnes from them, and their fleshe from their bones. 3 And they eate also the fleshe of my people, & flay of their skinne from them: and they breake their bones, and chop them in peeces as for the pot, and as fleshe within the cauldron. 4 Then shall they crye vnto the Lorde, but he wyll not heare them: he wyll euen hide his face from them at that time, because they haue done wickedly in their workes. 5 Thus saith the Lorde concerning the prophetes that deceaue my people and bite them with their teeth, and crye peace: but if a man put not into their mouthes, they prepare warre against him.
  • Hab 3:14 : 14 Thou diddest strike thorow with his owne staues the heades of his villages, they came out as a whirlewinde to scatter me: their reioycyng was as to deuour the poore secretly.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her rulers within her are as roaring lions, her iudges are as wolues in the euening, whiche leaue nothing behinde them till the morowe.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: ye neither go in your selues, neither suffer ye them that come, to enter in.
  • Jas 5:1-4 : 1 Go to nowe ye riche men, weepe and howle on your wretchednesse that shall come vpon you. 2 Your riches is corrupt, your garmentes are motheaten: 3 Your golde and siluer is cankred, and the rust of them shalbe a witnesse agaynst you, and shall eate your fleshe as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure together in your last dayes. 4 Beholde, the hire of labourers, which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which hire is of you kept backe by fraude, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lorde Sabaoth.

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  • Job 29:17
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    17I brake the iawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the spoyle out of his teeth.

  • Prov 30:13
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    13There is a generation that hath a proude loke, and doth cast vp their eye lyddes.

  • Prov 30:15-16
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    15The horse leache hath two daughters crying: bryng hyther, bryng hyther. There be three thynges that are neuer satisfied, yea foure thynges sayth neuer hoe:

    16The graue, the barren wombe, and the earth that hath neuer water enough: as for fire it sayth neuer hoe.

  • Job 24:9
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    9They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take the pledge from the poore.

  • Ps 37:12
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    12The vngodly busieth his head all against the iust: and gnasheth vpon him with his teeth.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The vngodly haue drawen out the sworde, and haue bended their bowe: to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of right conuersation.

  • Joel 1:6
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    6For a nation is come vp vpon my lande, mightie and without number: his teeth are as the teeth of a lion, and he hath the iawes of a great lion.

  • Ps 58:6
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    6Breake their teeth O Lorde in their mouthes: smite a sunder the chawe bones of Lions O God.

  • Jer 31:29
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    29Then shall it no more be sayde, The fathers haue eaten a sowre grape, and the childrens teeth are set on edge:

  • Lam 4:4
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    4The tongues of the sucking chyldren cleaue to the roofe of their mouthes for very thyrst: the young chyldren aske bread, but there is no man that geueth it them.

  • Job 5:4-5
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    4His children were without prosperitie, and they were slayne in the gate, and there was no man to deliuer them.

    5His haruest was eaten of the hungrie, & taken from among the thornes, and the thurstie drunke vp their labour: It is not the earth that bringeth foorth iniquitie,

  • Job 24:4-5
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    4They cause the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hyde them selues together.

    5Beholde, as wilde asses in the desert go they foorth to their worke, & ryse betimes to spoyle: Yea the very wildernesse ministreth foode for them & their children.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4Heare this, O ye that swallow vp the poore, that ye may make the needy of the lande to fayle,

  • Deut 32:24-25
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    24They shalbe burnt with hunger, and consumed with heate, and with bitter destruction: I wyll also sende the teeth of beastes vpon them, with the furiousnesse of serpentes in the dust.

    25Withoutforth shall the sworde robbe them of their children, and within in the chamber feare: both young men & young women, and the suckelynges, with the men of gray heades.

  • Job 41:14
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    14Who shall open the doores of his face? for he hath horrible teeth round about.

  • Isa 14:30
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    30But the first borne of the poore shalbe fed, and the simple shall dwell in safetie: Thy roote also wyll I destroy with hunger, and it shall slay the remnaunt.

  • Job 4:10
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    10The roring of the lion, and the voyce of the lion, and the teeth of the lions whelpes are pulled out.

  • Prov 13:23
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    23There is plenteousnesse of foode in the fieldes of the poore: but the fielde not well ordered, is without fruite.

  • Job 27:14
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    14If he get many children, they shall perishe with the sworde, and his posteritie shall haue scarcenesse of bread.

  • Job 5:15-16
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    15But he deliuereth the poore from the sworde, from their threatninges, and from the violence of the mightie.

    16He is the hope of the poore, & the mouth of the wicked shalbe stopped.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2Where thorowe the poore are put from their right, and my seelie people robbed of iudgement, that wydowes may be their pray, and that they may rob the fatherlesse.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold they speake with their mouth, swordes are in their lippes: for say they who doth heare vs?

  • Ps 35:16
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    16With hypocrites, scoffers, and parasites: they gnashed vpon me with their teeth.

  • Rom 3:14
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    14Whose mouth is full of cursyng and bytternesse.

  • Prov 28:15
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    15As a roaring Lion and an hungrye Beare, so is an vngodly prince ouer the poore people.

  • Isa 9:20
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    20But he robbeth on the right hande, and doth famishe, he eateth on the left hande, and he shall not haue inough: euery man shall eate the fleshe of his owne arme.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They gape vpon me with their mouthes: as it were a rampyng and a roryng lion.

  • Song 6:6
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    6Thy teeth are lyke a flocke of shorne sheepe which go out of the wasshyng place, where euery one beareth twinnes, and not one vnfruitfull among them.

  • Jer 5:16-17
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    16Their arrowes are sodayne death, yea they them selues be very giauntes.

    17This people shall eate vp thy fruite and thy meate, yea they shall deuour thy sonnes & thy daughters, thy sheepe and thy bullockes, they shall eate vp thy grapes and figges: As for thy strong and well defensed cities wherin thou didst trust, they shall bryng to pouertie, and that through the sworde.

  • Job 16:9
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    9His wrath hath torne me he hateth me, & gnasheth vpon me with his teeth: myne enemie loketh fiercely vpon me with his eyes.

  • Isa 32:7
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    7The weapons of the churlishe are euyll, he deuiseth noysome deuises, that he may beguyle the poore with deceiptfull wordes, yea euen there as he should geue sentence with the poore.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16Who so doth a poore man wrong, to increase his owne riches and geueth vnto the ryche, at the last commeth to pouertie hym selfe.

  • Prov 10:15
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    15The riche mans goodes are his strong holde: but their owne pouertie feareth the poore.

  • Mic 3:3
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    3And they eate also the fleshe of my people, & flay of their skinne from them: and they breake their bones, and chop them in peeces as for the pot, and as fleshe within the cauldron.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3One poore man oppressing another by violence, is like a raging rayne that destroyeth the fruite.

  • Prov 24:34
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    34So shall pouertie come vnto thee as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessitie lyke a weaponed man.

  • Prov 31:9
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    9Open thy mouth, defende the thyng that is lawfull and ryght, and the cause of the poore and helpelesse.

  • Isa 5:29
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    29His crye is as it were of a Lion, and he roreth lyke Lions whelpes: they shall roare and hantche vpon the pray, and no man shall recouer it, nor get it from them.

  • Prov 6:11
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    11So shall pouertie come vnto thee as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessitie like a weaponed man.

  • Job 24:14
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    14The murtherer ryseth early and killeth the poore and needy, and in the night is as a thiefe?

  • Job 39:30
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    30His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where any dead body lyeth, there is he.

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    31He that doth a poore man wrong, blasphemeth his maker: but who so honoureth him, hath pitie on the poore.

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    11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not blesse their mother.

  • Ps 112:10
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    10The vngodly shall see it, and it wyll greeue hym, he wyll gnashe with his teethe and consume away: the desire of the vngodly shall perishe.