KJV King James Version
[There is] a generation, whose teeth [are as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Proverbs 30:14
[There is] a generation, whose teeth [are as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A generation—swords are their teeth, And knives—their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 30
11 [There is] a generation [that] curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
12 [There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and [yet] is not washed from their filthiness.
13 [There is] a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
14 [There is] a generation, whose teeth [are as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.
15 The horseleach hath two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough:
16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth [that] is not filled with water; and the fire [that] saith not, [It is] enough.
17 The eye [that] mocketh at [his] father, and despiseth to obey [his] mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
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דּ֤וֹר׀H1755 · dorgenerationחֲרָב֣וֹתH2719 · che.revswordשִׁנָּיו֮H8127 · shentoothוּֽמַאֲכָל֪וֹתH3979 · ma.a.khe.letknifeמְֽתַלְּעֹ֫תָ֥יוH4973 · me.tal.l.ahjawלֶאֱכֹ֣לH398 · a.khalto eatעֲנִיִּ֣יםH6041 · a.niafflictedמֵאֶ֑רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetוְ֝אֶבְיוֹנִ֗יםH34 · ev.yonneedyמֵאָדָֽם׃ פH120 · a.damman
Cross-references
Psalm 57:4My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.Psalm 3:7Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.Psalm 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.Job 29:17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.Revelation 9:8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions.Psalm 58:6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.Psalm 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set [him] in safety [from him that] puffeth at him.Ecclesiastes 4:1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of [such as were] oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors [there was] power; but they had no comforter.Amos 8:4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,Micah 2:1-2Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.Psalm 10:8-9He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.Isaiah 32:7The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.Micah 3:1-5And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know judgment?Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.Amos 2:7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name:Matthew 23:13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.Zephaniah 3:3Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.Amos 4:1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
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