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

He who crushes the poor to multiply for himself, and he who gives to the rich, only to come to poverty.

A poor man who crushes the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

He sits in the hiding-places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the poor.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will set in safety, he pants for it.

Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there was power, but they had no comforter.

Also the weapons of the fool are evil; he thinks of wicked ways to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father will go in to the same woman, to defile My holy name.

Hear this Word, cows of Bashan who are in the mountain of Samaria; who press down the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring in, that we may drink.

Hear this, you who trample the poor, even to make the humble of the land to fail,

Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

And I said, Please hear, O heads of Jacob and magistrates of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?

You pierced the head of his warriors with his shafts; they storm out to scatter me; their rejoicing is to devour the meek in a secret place.

Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges evening wolves. They do not gnaw bones for the morning.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and pray at length as a pretense. Therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.

Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on.