Proverbs 30:14

The Scriptures 1998

There is a generation whose teeth are swords, And whose jaw-teeth are knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.

Cross References

Psalm 57:4

My being is in the midst of lions; I lie among those who breathe fire, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue is a sharp sword.

Psalm 3:7

Arise, O יהוה ; Save me, O my Elohim! Because You have smitten all my enemies on the cheek; You have broken the teeth of the wrong.

Psalm 14:4

Have all the workers of wickedness no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on יהוה ?

Job 29:17

And I broke the jaws of the perverse, and snatched the prey from his teeth.

Revelation 9:8

And they had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, to do away with the poor of the land,

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Then I looked again at all the oppression that is done under the sun: And see! The tears of the oppressed, but they have no comforter; and power on the side of their oppressors, but they have no comforter.

Psalm 58:6

O Elohim, break their teeth in their mouth! Break out the fangs of the young lions, O יהוה!

Psalm 12:5

“Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, I now arise,” says יהוה, “I set in safety – he pants for it.”

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her rulers in her midst are roaring lions, her judges are evening wolves, they shall leave no bone until morning.

Habakkuk 3:14

You shall pierce with his own arrows The head of his leaders. They stormed along to scatter me, Rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Shomeron, who are oppressing the poor, who are crushing the needy, who are saying to their masters, “Bring wine, let us drink!”

Amos 2:7

who crush the head of the poor ones in the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go in to the same girl, to defile My set-apart Name.

Isaiah 32:7

And the methods of the scoundrel are evil – he has devised wicked plans to destroy the poor with words of falsehood, even when the needy pleads for right-ruling.

Proverbs 28:3

A poor man who oppresses the poor Is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

Proverbs 22:16

One oppresses the poor to increase his wealth, Another gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

Proverbs 12:18

Rash speaking is like piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise is healing.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Psalm 124:6

Blessed be יהוה, Who did not give us as prey to their teeth.

Proverbs 30:15

The leech has two daughters: “Give! Give!” Three are not satisfied, Four that never say, “Enough”:

Isaiah 3:14

יהוה  enters into judgment with the elders of His people and its heads, “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Job 41:14

Who shall open the doors of his face, with his frightening teeth all around?

Psalm 57:5

Be exalted, O Elohim, above the heavens; Let Your esteem be above all the earth.

Isaiah 3:15

“What do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Master, יהוה  of hosts.

Isaiah 10:2

to keep the needy back from right-ruling, and to take what is right from the poor of My people, that widows become their prey, and orphans their plunder.

Ezekiel 22:6

“See the leaders of Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 34:3

“You eat the fat and you put on the wool. You slaughter the fatlings – you do not feed the flock.