Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
Bible References
To devour
Proverbs 22:16
He who gets ahead by oppressing the poor and giving to the rich will certainly suffer loss.
Proverbs 28:3
A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.
Psalm 10:8
He waits in ambush in the villages. From his hiding places he kills innocent people. He searches for victims.
Psalm 12:5
Because oppressed people are robbed and needy people groan, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will provide safety for those who long for it.
Psalm 14:4
Are all the workers of wickedness, those who devour my people as if they were devouring food, so ignorant that they do not call on Jehovah?
Ecclesiastes 4:1
I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed for they had no one to comfort them. The oppressors had power but they had no one to comfort them.
Isaiah 32:7
As for a rogue, his weapons are evil. He devises wicked schemes to destroy the afflicted with slander, even though the needy one speaks what is right.
Amos 2:7
They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of lowly (meek) persons. They reject the humble! A man and his father have sexual relations with the same maiden, to profane my holy name.
Amos 4:1
Hear this word you cows of Bashan who live on the mountain of Samaria. You oppress the poor. You crush the needy. You say to your masters (husbands) (lords), Bring us drink.
Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning comes they do it because they are able to (it is in the power of their hands).
Micah 3:1
I said: Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not your responsibility to know justice?
Habakkuk 3:14
You pierced the head of his warriors. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me. They secretly devour the oppressed.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes (rulers) within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morning.
Matthew 23:14
[Verse not found in oldest manuscripts.]
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.