And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth
Proverbs 30:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 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. More versionsKing 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 brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth
For the spoiling of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety at whom they puff.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon the LORD.
Arise, 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 wicked.
Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness; Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; Let thy glory be above all the earth.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword: But the tongue of the wise is health.
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his gain, And he that giveth to the rich, cometh only to want.
A needy man that oppresseth the poor Is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give There are three things that are never satisfied, Yea, four that say not, Enough:
Then I returned and saw 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.
to turn aside the needy from judgement, and to take away the right of the poor of my people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
The LORD will enter into judgement with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:
what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep.
that 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 unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Thou didst pierce with his own staves the head of his warriors: They came as a whirlwind to scatter me: Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.