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.
Proverbs 30:14 in other translations
| BSB | 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. |
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| WEB | There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | A generation--swords are their teeth, And knives--their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men. |
| DARBY | — a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men. |
| BBE | There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Proverbs 30:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 30:11-14
11-14. Four kinds of hateful persons--(1) graceless children, (2) hypocrites, (3) the proud, (4) cruel oppressors (compare on Pr 30:14; Psa 14:4; 52:2)--are now illustrated; (1) Pr 30:15, 16, the insatiability of prodigal children and their fate; (2) Pr 30:17, hypocrisy, or the concealment of real character; (3 and 4) Pr 30:18-20, various examples of pride and oppression.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 30:11-14
In every age there are monsters of ingratitude who ill-treat their parents. Many persuade themselves they are holy persons, whose hearts are full of sin, and who practise secret wickedness. There are others whose lofty pride is manifest. There have also been cruel monsters in every age.
Proverbs 30:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 30:14
- Psalms 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.
- Psalms 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.
- Psalms 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.
- Job 29:17
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- Psalms 58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
- Revelation 9:8
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
- Ecclesiastes 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 power; but they had no comforter.
- Psalms 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.
- Amos 8:4
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
- Psalms 10:8-9
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. 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.
- Micah 2:1-2
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. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- Proverbs 28:3
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
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Context
- Proverbs 30:13
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
- 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.
- Proverbs 30:15
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
Proverbs 30:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Hay generación cuyos dientes son espadas, y sus muelas cuchillos, para devorar á los pobres de la tierra, y de entre los hombres á los menesterosos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | – une génération dont les dents sont des épées et les molaires des couteaux, pour dévorer les affligés de dessus la terre, et les nécessiteux d’entre les hommes. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | ein Geschlecht, dessen Zähne Schwerter sind, und Messer sein Gebiß, um wegzufressen die Elenden von der Erde und die Dürftigen aus der Menschen Mitte! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | generatio quæ pro dentibus gladios habet, et commandit molaribus suis, ut comedat inopes de terra, et pauperes ex hominibus. |