Proverbs 30:14

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There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.

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  • Ps 57:4 : 4 I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among those who want to devour me; men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are a sharp sword.
  • Ps 3:7 : 7 Rise up, LORD! Deliver me, my God! Yes, you will strike all my enemies on the jaw; you will break the teeth of the wicked.
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 All those who behave wickedly do not understand– those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the LORD.
  • Job 29:17 : 17 I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 Evil Oppression on Earth So I again considered all the oppression that continually occurs on earth. This is what I saw: The oppressed were in tears, but no one was comforting them; no one delivers them from the power of their oppressors.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim. 9 He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.
  • Rev 9:8 : 8 They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 “Because of the violence done to the oppressed, because of the painful cries of the needy, I will spring into action,” says the LORD.“I will provide the safety they so desperately desire.”
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.
  • Ps 58:6 : 6 O God, break the teeth in their mouths! Smash the jawbones of the lions, O LORD!
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.
  • Prov 28:3 : 3 A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.
  • Isa 32:7 : 7 A deceiver’s methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.
  • Dan 7:5-7 : 5 “Then a second beast appeared, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and there were three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told,‘Get up and devour much flesh!’ 6 “After these things, as I was watching, another beast like a leopard appeared, with four bird-like wings on its back. This beast had four heads, and ruling authority was given to it. 7 “After these things, as I was watching in the night visions a fourth beast appeared– one dreadful, terrible, and very strong. It had two large rows of iron teeth. It devoured and crushed, and anything that was left it trampled with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that came before it, and it had ten horns.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands,“Bring us more to drink!”
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so. 2 They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
  • Mic 3:1-5 : 1 God Will Judge Judah’s Sinful Leaders I said,“Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You ought to know what is just, 2 yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones. 3 You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle. 4 Someday these sinful leaders will cry to the LORD for help, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, because they have done such wicked deeds.” 5 This is what the LORD has said about the prophets who mislead my people,“If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him.
  • Hab 3:14 : 14 You pierce the heads of his warriors with a spear. They storm forward to scatter us; they shout with joy as if they were plundering the poor with no opposition.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 “But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
  • Jas 5:1-4 : 1 Warning to the Rich Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure! 4 Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

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  • Job 29:17
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    17I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

  • Prov 30:13
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    13There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully.

  • Prov 30:15-16
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    15The leech has two daughters:“Give! Give!” There are three things that will never be satisfied, four that have never said,“Enough”–

    16the grave, the barren womb; earth has not been satisfied with water; and fire has never said,“Enough!”

  • Job 24:9
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    9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

  • Ps 37:12
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    12Evil men plot against the godly and viciously attack them.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

  • Joel 1:6
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    6For a nation has invaded my land, mighty and without number. Their teeth are lion’s teeth; they have the fangs of a lioness.

  • Ps 58:6
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    6O God, break the teeth in their mouths! Smash the jawbones of the lions, O LORD!

  • Jer 31:29
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    29The Lord Will Make a New Covenant with Israel and Judah“When that time comes, people will no longer say,‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children’s teeth have grown numb.’

  • Lam 4:4
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    4ד(Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

  • Job 5:4-5
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    4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.

    5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.

  • Job 24:4-5
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    4They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

  • Deut 32:24-25
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    24They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.

    25The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.

  • Job 41:14
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    14Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome.

  • Isa 14:30
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    30The poor will graze in my pastures; the needy will rest securely. But I will kill your root by famine; it will put to death all your survivors.

  • Job 4:10
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    10There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.

  • Prov 13:23
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    23Abundant food may come from the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice.

  • Job 27:14
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    14If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

  • Job 5:15-16
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    15So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the powerful.

    16Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, for they say,“Who hears?”

  • Ps 35:16
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    16When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.

  • Rom 3:14
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    14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

  • Prov 28:15
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    15Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

  • Isa 9:20
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    20They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.

  • Song 6:6
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    6Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin; not one of them is missing.

  • Jer 5:16-17
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    16All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.

    17They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.

  • Job 16:9
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    9His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.

  • Isa 32:7
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    7A deceiver’s methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.

  • Prov 10:15
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    15The wealth of a rich person is like a fortified city, but the poor are brought to ruin by their poverty.

  • Mic 3:3
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    3You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.

  • Prov 24:34
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    34and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”

  • Prov 31:9
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    9Open your mouth, judge in righteousness, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

  • Isa 5:29
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    29Their roar is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they drag it away and no one can come to the rescue.

  • Prov 6:11
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    11and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.

  • Job 24:14
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    14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

  • Job 39:30
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    30And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is.”

  • Prov 14:31
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    31The one who oppresses the poor has insulted his Creator, but whoever honors him shows favor to the needy.

  • Prov 30:11
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    11There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

  • Ps 112:10
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    10When the wicked see this, they will worry; they will grind their teeth in frustration and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.