Proverbs 30:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and whose jaws are 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, and 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, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies on the cheekbone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Do all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?
  • Job 29:17 : 17 And I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the victim from his teeth.
  • Amos 8:4 : 4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 So I returned and considered 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 sits in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; his eyes are secretly set against the poor. 9 He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.
  • Rev 9:8 : 8 They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him who puffs at him.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
  • Ps 58:6 : 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There are those who speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.
  • Prov 28:3 : 3 A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.
  • Isa 32:7 : 7 The schemes of the miser are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks what is right.
  • Dan 7:5-7 : 5 And behold, another beast, a second one, was like a bear. It raised itself up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And they said to it, Arise, devour much flesh. 6 After this, I looked, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it. 7 After this, I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces and trampled what was left with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 They 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 go in to the same maid, to profane My holy name:
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, 'Bring, and let us drink.'
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand. 2 They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
  • Mic 3:1-5 : 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O leaders of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know justice? 2 Who hate good and love evil; who strip their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron. 4 Then they shall cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, because they have done evil in their deeds. 5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who make my people err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
  • Hab 3:14 : 14 You pierced with his own staves the head of his villages. They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me; their rejoicing was like to devour the poor secretly.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the morning.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.
  • Jas 5:1-4 : 1 Come now, you rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded; and their corrosion shall be a witness against you, and shall consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure for the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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    17And I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the victim from his teeth.

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

  • Prov 30:15-16
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    15The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, indeed four that say not, It is enough:

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  • Job 24:9
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    9They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.

  • Ps 37:12
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    12The wicked plot against the just and gnash at him with their teeth.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright conduct.

  • Joel 1:6
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    6For a nation has come up against my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.

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

  • Jer 31:29
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    29In those days they shall no longer say, 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 for bread, and no one breaks it for them.

  • Job 5:4-5
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    4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver them.

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

    5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

  • Deut 32:24-25
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    24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

    25The sword outside, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the nursing child also with the man of gray hairs.

  • Job 41:14
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    14Who can open the doors of his face? His teeth are terrifying all around.

  • Isa 14:30
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    30And the firstborn of the poor will feed, and the needy will lie down in safety: and I will kill your root with famine, and he will slay your remnant.

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

  • Prov 13:23
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    23Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.

  • Job 27:14
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    14If his children multiply, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

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

    16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears?

  • Ps 35:16
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    16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

  • 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 and a raging bear, so is a wicked ruler over poor people.

  • Isa 9:20
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    20And he will snatch on the right hand and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand and not be satisfied; they will eat every man the flesh of his own arm.

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    13They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

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    6Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which come up from the washing; every one has twins, and none is barren among them.

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

    17And they 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 impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

  • Job 16:9
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    9He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

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    7The schemes of the miser are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks what is right.

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    16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • 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; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

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

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

  • Isa 5:29
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    29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and seize the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it.

  • Prov 6:11
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    11So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • Job 24:14
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    14The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.

  • Job 39:30
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    30Its young ones also drink blood; and where the slain are, there it is.

  • Prov 14:31
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    31He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor.

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    11There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

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    10The wicked shall see it and be grieved; he shall gnash his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.