Proverbs 30:14

Lighthouse Bible 2006

There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor off of the earth, and the needy from among men.

Cross References

Job 29:17

And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Job 41:14

Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

Psalm 12:5

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 that puffs at him.

Psalm 124:6

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

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD.

Psalm 3:7

Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have struck all my enemies upon the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises mischief; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 57:5

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be above all the earth.

Psalm 58:6

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

Proverbs 12:18

There is the man who speaks like the piercing of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 22:16

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

Proverbs 28:3

A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

Proverbs 30:15

The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things do not say, It is enough:

Ecclesiastes 4:1

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of those that were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Isaiah 10:2

To turn aside the needy from obtaining justice, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Isaiah 3:14

The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord GOD of hosts.

Isaiah 32:7

The schemes also of the selfish person are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

Ezekiel 22:6

Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in you according to their power to shed blood.

Ezekiel 34:3

You eat the fat, and you clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill those who are fed: but you do not feed the flock.

Amos 2:7

Who covet 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 in to the same maid, to profane my holy name:

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Habakkuk 3:14

You struck through with his rods the chief of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not leave the bones till the morrow.

Matthew 23:13

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 permit those who are entering to go in.

Revelation 9:8

And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.