Proverbs 30:14

World English Bible (2000)

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

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  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Ps 3:7 : 7 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?
  • Job 29:17 : 17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
  • Rev 9:8 : 8 They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
  • Ps 58:6 : 6 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
  • Prov 28:3 : 3 A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
  • Isa 32:7 : 7 The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
  • Dan 7:5-7 : 5 Behold, another animal, a second, like a bear; and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh. 6 After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the animal had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. 7 After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the animals that were before it; and it had ten horns.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
  • Mic 3:1-5 : 1 I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice? 2 You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 4 Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil." 5 Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
  • Hab 3:14 : 14 You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
  • Jas 5:1-4 : 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

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    17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

  • Prov 30:13
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    13There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

  • Prov 30:15-16
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    15"The leach has two daughters: 'Give, give.' "There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don't say, 'Enough:'

    16Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'

  • Job 24:9
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    9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

  • Ps 37:12
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    12The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Joel 1:6
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    6For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

  • Ps 58:6
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    6Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

  • Jer 31:29
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    29In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

  • Lam 4:4
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    4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.

  • Job 5:4-5
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    4His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

    5whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

  • Job 24:4-5
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    4They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

    5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

  • Deut 32:24-25
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    24[They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

    25Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, The nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

  • Job 41:14
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    14Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

  • Isa 14:30
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    30The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

  • Job 4:10
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    10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

  • Prov 13:23
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    23An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

  • Job 27:14
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    14If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

  • Job 5:15-16
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    15But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

    16So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

  • Ps 35:16
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    16Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

  • Rom 3:14
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    14"whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

  • Prov 28:15
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    15As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

  • Isa 9:20
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    20One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Song 6:6
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    6Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing; of which every one has twins; none is bereaved among them.

  • Jer 5:16-17
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    16Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

    17They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, [which] your sons and your daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds. They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees. They shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.

  • Job 16:9
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    9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

  • Isa 32:7
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    7The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

  • Prov 10:15
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    15The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

  • Mic 3:3
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    3who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

  • Prov 24:34
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    34so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Prov 31:9
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    9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."

  • Isa 5:29
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    29Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

  • Prov 6:11
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    11so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

  • Job 24:14
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    14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

  • Job 39:30
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    30His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."

  • Prov 14:31
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    31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

  • Prov 30:11
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    11There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.

  • Ps 112:10
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    10The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.