I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
Proverbs 30:14 - Revised Standard Version There are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among men. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord?
Arise, O Lord! Deliver me, O my God! For thou dost smite all my enemies on the cheek, thou dost break the teeth of the wicked.
you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
I lie in the midst of lions that greedily devour the sons of men; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let thy glory be over all the earth!
O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
He who oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to want.
A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.
The leech has two daughters; “Give, give,” they cry. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough”:
Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.
to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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.
What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?” says the Lord God of hosts.
The knaveries of the knave are evil; he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
“Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.
You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep.
they that trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same maiden, so that my holy name is profaned;
“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 husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
Hear this, you who trample upon the needy, and bring the poor of the land to an end,
Thou didst pierce with thy shafts the head of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.
Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.