Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

A generation -- swords are their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men.

New American Standard Bible

There is a kind of man whose teeth are like swords
And his jaw teeth like knives,
To devour the afflicted from the earth
And the needy from among men.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

There is a generation whose teeth are swords,
whose fangs are knives,
devouring the oppressed from the land
and the needy from among mankind.

International Standard Version

Some people have swords for teeth and knives for fangs to devour the afflicted from the earth and the needy from among mankind.

A Conservative Version

There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified


There is a generation (class of people) whose teeth are like swords
And whose jaw teeth are like knives,
To devour the afflicted from the earth
And the needy from among men.

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

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.

Julia Smith Translation

A generation, its teeth swords, and its biter's teeth, knives, to devour the poor from the land, and the needy from man.

King James 2000

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[There is] a generation whose teeth [are] swords, and its jawbones, knives, [in order] to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from humankind.

Modern King James verseion

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

This peoples' teeth are swords, and with their jawbones they consume and devour the simple of the earth, and the poor from among men.

NET Bible

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.

New Heart 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.

The Emphasized Bible

A generation! Swords, are its teeth, and, knives, its incisors, - to devour the humbled out of the earth, and the needy, 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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּר דּור 
Dowr 
Usage: 167

שׁן 
Shen 
Usage: 55

are as swords
חרב 
Chereb 
Usage: 413

מתלּעה 
M@thall@`ah 
Usage: 3

as knives
מאכלת 
Ma'akeleth 
Usage: 4

to devour
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

the poor
עני 
`aniy 
Usage: 75

from off the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

and the needy
H34
אביון 
'ebyown 
Usage: 61

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Four Kinds Of People

13 A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up. 14 A generation -- swords are their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men. 15 To the leech are two daughters, 'Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said 'Sufficiency;'

Cross References

Job 29:17

And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

Psalm 14:4

Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames -- sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

Psalm 3:7

Rise, O Jehovah! save me, my God. Because Thou hast smitten All mine enemies on the cheek. The teeth of the wicked Thou hast broken.

Psalm 10:8-9

He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

Psalm 12:5

Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety him who doth breathe for it.

Psalm 52:2

Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Psalm 58:6

O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

Proverbs 12:18

A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

Proverbs 22:16

He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.

Proverbs 28:3

A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, Is a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors is power, and they have no comforter.

Isaiah 32:7

And the miser -- his instruments are evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

Daniel 7:5-7

And lo, another beast, a second, like to a bear, and to the same authority it hath been raised, and three ribs are in its mouth, between its teeth, and thus they are saying to it, Rise, consume much flesh.

Amos 2:7

Who are panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And the way of the humble they turn aside, And a man and his father go unto the damsel, So as to pollute My holy name.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who are in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: 'Bring in, and we do drink.'

Micah 2:1-2

Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

Micah 3:1-5

And I say, 'Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment?

Habakkuk 3:14

Thou hast pierced with his staves the head of his leaders, They are tempestuous to scatter me, Their exultation is as to consume the poor in secret.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her heads in her midst are roaring lions, Her judges are evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.

Matthew 23:13

'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

James 5:1-4

Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you;

Revelation 9:8

and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as those of lions,

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