Proverbs 30:14
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.
KJV
generatio quæ pro dentibus gladios habet, et commandit molaribus suis, ut comedat inopes de terra, et pauperes ex hominibus.
Vulgate
There is a generation whose teeth areasswords, and their jaw teethasknives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
ASV
דּ֤וֹר חֲרָב֣וֹת שִׁנָּי/ו֮ וּֽ/מַאֲכָל֪וֹת מְֽתַלְּעֹ֫תָ֥י/ו לֶ/אֱכֹ֣ל עֲנִיִּ֣ים מֵ/אֶ֑רֶץ וְ֝/אֶבְיוֹנִ֗ים מֵ/אָדָֽם
Hebrew
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.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Amos 8:4 — Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
- Amos 8:4 — Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
- Eccl 4:1 — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was
- Job 4:10 — The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
- Job 29:17 — And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- Job 29:17 — And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- Joel 1:6 — For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
- Mic 2:1 — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
- Ps 3:7 — Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
- Ps 10:8 — He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
- Ps 12:5 — For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
- Ps 14:4 — Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
- Ps 57:4 — My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
- Ps 57:4 — My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
- Ps 58:6 — Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
- Rev 9:8 — And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.