Proverbs 30:14
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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.there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
In other translations
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.there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
Hebrew words
דּוֹר׀dora generationH1755חֲרָבוֹתcharavot[are] swordsH2719שִׁנָּיוshinavteeth itsH8127וּמַאֲכָלוֹתuma'akhalotand [are] knivesH3979מְתַלְּעֹתָיוmetale'otavjaw bones itsH4973לֶאֱכֹלle'ekholto devourH398עֲנִיִּים'aniyimafflicted [people]H6041מֵאֶרֶץme'eretzfrom [the] earthH776וְאֶבְיוֹנִיםve'evyonimand needy [people]H34מֵאָדָם׃ פme'adamfrom humankindH120
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Psalm 57:4My 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.My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
- Psalm 3:7Arise, 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.Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
- Psalm 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
- Job 29:17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
- Ecclesiastes 4:1So 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 power; but they had no comforter.Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
- Revelation 9:8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
- Psalm 12:5For 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.“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
- Psalm 58:6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
- Psalm 10:8-98 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. 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.8 He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless. 9 He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
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