Proverbs 30:14
New International Version
those whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.

New Living Translation
They have teeth like swords and fangs like knives. They devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among humanity.

English Standard Version
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind.

Berean Standard Bible
there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, And whose fangs are like knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.

New American Standard Bible
There is a kind of person whose teeth are like swords And his jaw teeth like knives, To devour the poor from the earth And the needy from among mankind.

NASB 1995
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.

NASB 1977
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.

Legacy Standard Bible
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords And its fangs like knives, To devour the afflicted from the earth And the needy from among men.

Amplified Bible
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.

Christian Standard 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.

Holman Christian Standard 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.

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A generation whose swords are its teeth, and daggers its molars, to consume the poor of earth and the afflicted of men.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw-teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

Contemporary English Version
others are so greedy that they gobble up the poor and homeless.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A generation, that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the poor from among men.

English Revised 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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A certain kind of person, whose teeth are like swords and whose jaws are [like] knives, devours oppressed people from the earth and people from among humanity.

Good News Translation
There are people who take cruel advantage of the poor and needy; that is the way they make their living.

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.

JPS Tanakh 1917
There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their great teeth as knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Literal Standard Version
A generation—their teeth [are] swords, | And their jaw-teeth [are] knives, | To consume the poor from earth, | And the needy from [among] men.

Majority Standard Bible
there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

New American Bible
There are some—their teeth are swords, their teeth are knives, Devouring the needy from the earth, and the poor from the human race.

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 Revised Standard Version
there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.

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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's 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.

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Context
The Words of Agur
13There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances— 14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men. 15The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:…

Cross References
Job 29:17
I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

Psalm 14:4
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

Psalm 57:4
My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts--with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Psalm 124:6
Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

Proverbs 30:15
The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, 'Enough!':

Isaiah 3:14
The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: "You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,


Treasury of Scripture

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.

whose

Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Job 29:17
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Psalm 3:7
Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

to devour

Proverbs 22:16
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

Proverbs 28:3
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Psalm 10:8,9
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor…

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Proverbs 30
1. Agur's confession of his faith
7. The two points of his prayer
10. The meanest are not to be wronged
11. Four wicked generations
15. Four things insatiable
24. four things exceeding wise
29. Four things stately
32. Wrath is to be prevented














Verse 14. - A generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives. The fourth evil is insatiable cupidity, which leads to oppression and injurious treatment of the helpless and poor, which makes men as cruel and remorseless in destroying others and despoiling them of their substance, as the very steel which they use in their operations. Similarly, the psalmist speaks of his enemies as men "whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword" (Psalm 57:4; comp. Isaiah 9:12; Jeremiah 5:17). To devour the poor from off the earth; i.e. so as to be no more seen in the world. Amos 8:4, "Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail" (comp. Psalm 14:4).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
there is a generation
דּ֤וֹר ׀ (dō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1755: A revolution of time, an age, generation, a dwelling

whose teeth
שִׁנָּיו֮ (šin·nāw)
Noun - cdc | third person masculine singular
Strong's 8127: A tooth, ivory, a cliff

are swords
חֲרָב֣וֹת (ḥă·rā·ḇō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

and whose jaws
מְֽתַלְּעֹ֫תָ֥יו (mə·ṯal·lə·‘ō·ṯāw)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4973: A biter, a tooth

are knives,
וּֽמַאֲכָל֪וֹת (ū·ma·’ă·ḵā·lō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 3979: Something to eat with, a knife

devouring
לֶאֱכֹ֣ל (le·’ĕ·ḵōl)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 398: To eat

the oppressed
עֲנִיִּ֣ים (‘ă·nî·yîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 6041: Poor, afflicted, humble

from the earth,
מֵאֶ֑רֶץ (mê·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

and the needy
וְ֝אֶבְיוֹנִ֗ים (wə·’eḇ·yō·w·nîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 34: In want, needy, poor

from [among] men.
מֵאָדָֽם׃ (mê·’ā·ḏām)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being


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