Proverbs 30:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁴ There is a generation whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, devouring the oppressed from the land and the needy from among mankind.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ 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)

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.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ 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

¹⁴ 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.

Proverbs 30:14 Cross References

Job 29:17

I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

Job 41:14

Who can open his jaws, surrounded by those terrifying teeth?

Proverbs 12:18

There is one who speaks rashly, like a piercing sword; but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 22:16

Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich #– #both lead only to poverty.

Proverbs 28:3

A destitute leader  who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.

Proverbs 30:15

The leech has two daughters: ‘Give, Give! ’ Three things  are never satisfied; four never say, ‘Enough! ’:

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun.  Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.

Isaiah 10:2

to keep the poor from getting a fair trial and to deprive the needy among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoil and they can plunder the fatherless.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord brings this charge against the elders and leaders of his people: ‘You have devastated the vineyard. The plunder from the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor? ’ This is the declaration of the Lord  God of Armies.

Isaiah 32:7

The scoundrel’s weapons are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the needy with lies, even when the poor person says what is right.

Ezekiel 22:6

‘ “Look, every prince of Israel  within you has used his strength to shed blood.

Ezekiel 34:3

You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened animals, but you do not tend the flock.

Amos 2:7

They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name.

Amos 4:1

Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring us something to drink.’

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,

Habakkuk 3:14

You pierce his head with his own spears; his warriors storm out to scatter us, gloating as if ready to secretly devour the weak.

Zephaniah 3:3

The  princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the night, which leave nothing for   the morning.

Matthew 23:13

‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.   ,

Revelation 9:8

they had hair like women’s hair; their teeth were like lions’ teeth;