Proverbs 30:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.

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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

Psalm 57:4

I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Psalm 3:7

Rise up, O Lord! Deliver me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.

Psalm 14:4

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?

Job 29:17

I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made them drop their prey from their teeth.

Revelation 9:8

their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth;

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land,

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.

Psalm 58:6

O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.

Zephaniah 3:3

The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.

Habakkuk 3:14

You pierced with their own arrows the head of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter us, gloating as if ready to devour the poor who were in hiding.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”

Amos 2:7

they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and push the afflicted out of the way; father and son go in to the same young woman, so that my holy name is profaned;

Isaiah 32:7

The villainies of villains are evil; they devise wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

Proverbs 28:3

A poor person who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.

Proverbs 22:16

Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.

Proverbs 12:18

Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Psalm 52:2

you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

Psalm 124:6

Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

Proverbs 30:15

The leech has two daughters; “Give, give,” they cry. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough”:

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: It is you who have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Job 41:14

Who can open the doors of its face? There is terror all around its teeth.

Psalm 57:5

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, to make widows their spoil and to plunder orphans!

Ezekiel 22:6

The princes of Israel in you, everyone according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

Ezekiel 34:3

You eat the fat; you clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatted calves, but you do not feed the sheep.