Proverbs 30:14

New International Reader's Version

Some people have teeth like swords. The teeth in their jaws are as sharp as knives. They are ready to eat up the poor people of the earth. They are ready to eat up those who are the most needy.

Cross References

Job 29:17

Sinners are like animals that have powerful teeth. But I took from their mouths the people they had caught.

Job 41:14

Who dares to open its jaws? Its mouth is filled with terrifying teeth.

Psalm 12:5

The Lord says, “The poor are being robbed. Those who are in need groan. So I will stand up to help them. I will keep them safe from those who tell lies about them.”

Psalm 124:6

Give praise to the Lord. He has not let our enemies chew us up.

Psalm 14:4

Do all these people who do evil know nothing? They eat up my people as if they were eating bread. They never call out to the Lord.

Psalm 3:7

Lord, rise up! My God, save me! Strike all my enemies in the face. Break the teeth of sinful people.

Psalm 52:2

You plan ways to destroy others. Your tongue is like a blade that has a sharp edge. You are always telling lies.

Psalm 57:4

Men who are like lions are all around me. I am forced to lie down among people who are like hungry animals. Their teeth are like spears and arrows. Their tongues are like sharp swords.

Psalm 57:5

God, may you be honored above the heavens. Let your glory be over the whole earth.

Psalm 58:6

God, break the teeth in the mouths of those sinners! Lord, tear out the sharp teeth of those lions!

Proverbs 12:18

The words of thoughtless people cut like swords. But the tongue of wise people brings healing.

Proverbs 22:16

You might treat poor people badly or give gifts to rich people. Trying to get rich in these ways will instead make you poor.

Proverbs 28:3

A ruler who treats poor people badly is like a pounding rain that leaves no crops.

Proverbs 30:15

“A leech has two daughters. They cry out, ‘Give! Give!’ “Three things are never satisfied. Four things never say, ‘Enough!’

Ecclesiastes 4:1

I looked and saw how much people were suffering on this earth. I saw the tears of those who are suffering. They don’t have anyone to comfort them. Power is on the side of those who treat them badly. Those who are suffering don’t have anyone to comfort them.

Isaiah 10:2

You take away the rights of poor people. You hold back what is fair from my people who are suffering. You take for yourselves what belongs to widows. You rob children whose fathers have died.

Isaiah 3:14

He judges the elders and leaders of his people. He says to them, “My people are like a vineyard. You have destroyed them. The things you have taken from poor people are in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people? Why are you grinding the faces of the poor into the dirt?” announces the Lord. He is the Lord who rules over all.

Isaiah 32:7

Those who are worthless use sinful methods. They make evil plans against poor people. They destroy them with their lies. They do it even when those people are right.

Ezekiel 22:6

“ ‘ “The princes of Israel are in your city. All of them use their power to spill blood.

Ezekiel 34:3

Instead, you eat the butter. You dress yourselves with the wool. You kill the finest animals. But you do not take care of your flocks.

Amos 2:7

They grind the heads of the poor into the dust of the ground. They refuse to be fair to those who are crushed. A father and his son have sex with the same girl. They treat my name as if it were not holy.

Amos 4:1

Listen to the Lord’s message, you women who live on the hill of Samaria. You treat poor people badly. You crush those who are in need. You say to your husbands, “Bring us some drinks!” But you are already as fat as the cows in Bashan.

Amos 8:4

Listen to me, you who walk all over needy people. You crush those who are poor in the land.

Habakkuk 3:14

His soldiers rushed out to scatter us. They were laughing at us. They thought they would easily destroy us. They saw us as weak people who were trying to hide. So you wounded Pharaoh’s head with his own spear.

Zephaniah 3:3

Jerusalem’s officials are like roaring lions. Their rulers are like wolves that hunt in the evening. They don’t leave anything to eat in the morning.

Matthew 23:13

“How terrible it will be for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You pretenders! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter. And you will not let those enter who are trying to.

Revelation 9:8

Their hair was like women’s hair. Their teeth were like lions’ teeth.