And I broke the jaws of the perverse, and snatched the prey from his teeth.
Proverbs 30:14 - The Scriptures 2009 There is a generation whose teeth are swords, And whose jaw-teeth are knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition There is a class of people whose teeth are as swords and whose fangs as knives, to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among men. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible There are those whose teeth are swords; their jaw is a butcher’s knife, ready to devour the needy from the earth, and the poor from humanity. Catholic Public Domain Version There is a generation which has swords in place of teeth, and which commands their molars to devour the indigent from the earth and the poor from among men. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A generation, that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the poor from among men. |
And I broke the jaws of the perverse, and snatched the prey from his teeth.
Who shall open the doors of his face, with his frightening teeth all around?
Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, I now arise, says יהוה, “I set in safety – he pants for it.”
Have all the workers of wickedness no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on יהוה?
Arise, O יהוה; Save me, O my Elohim! Because You have stricken all my enemies on the cheek; You have broken the teeth of the wrong.
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
My being is in the midst of lions; I lie among those who breathe fire, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue is a sharp sword.
Be exalted, O Elohim, above the heavens; Let Your esteem be above all the earth.
O Elohim, break their teeth in their mouth! Break out the fangs of the young lions, O יהוה!
Rash speaking is like piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise is healing.
One oppresses the poor to increase his wealth, Another gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.
A poor man who oppresses the poor Is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.
The leech has two daughters: “Give! Give!” Three are not satisfied, Four that never say, “Enough”:
Then I looked again at all the oppression that is done under the sun: And see! The tears of the oppressed, but they have no comforter; and power on the side of their oppressors, but they have no comforter.
to keep the needy back from right-ruling, and to take what is right from the poor of My people, that widows become their prey, and orphans their plunder.
יהוה enters into judgment with the elders of His people and its heads, “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
“What do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Master, יהוה of hosts.
And the methods of the scoundrel are evil – he has devised wicked plans to destroy the poor with words of falsehood, even when the needy pleads for right-ruling.
“See the leaders of Yisra’ĕl: each one has used his arm to shed blood in you.
“You eat the fat and you put on the wool. You slaughter the fatlings – you do not feed the flock.
who crush the head of the poor ones in the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go in to the same girl, to defile My set-apart Name.
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Shomeron, who are oppressing the poor, who are crushing the needy, who are saying to their masters, “Bring wine, let us drink!”
Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, to do away with the poor of the land,
You shall pierce with his own arrows The head of his leaders. They stormed along to scatter me, Rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.
Her rulers in her midst are roaring lions, her judges are evening wolves, they shall leave no bone until morning.
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
And they had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.