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Proverbs 30:14

World English Bible

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.

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Proverbs 30:14 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.

Proverbs 30:14 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 30:14 in context

  1. 12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes,
    yet are not washed from their filthiness.
  2. 13There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes!
    Their eyelids are lifted up.
  3. 14There 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.
  4. 15“The leech has two daughters:
    ‘Give, give.’
    “There are three things that are never satisfied;
    four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’
  5. 16Sheol,
    the barren womb;
    the earth that is not satisfied with water;
    and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’