Proverbs 30:14

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Summary

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.

To devour

Bible References

To devour

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.

He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

"Because the poor are plundered, 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?

Again I saw all the oppressions that are done 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.

As for the scoundrel--his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

those who 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 girl, so that my holy name is profaned;

"Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, 'Bring, that we may drink!'

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,

Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?--

You pierced with his own arrows the heads 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.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.