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Proverbs 30:14
A generation! Swords, are its teeth, and, knives, its incisors,—to devour the humbled out of the earth, and the needy, from among men.
Proverbs 30:14 · Rotherham Emphasised Bible
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Proverbs 30:14 in other translations
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.
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.
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.
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In context
11 A generation! Its father, it revileth, and, its mother, it doth not bless.
12 A generation! Pure in its own eyes, yet, from its filth, hath it not been bathed,
13 A generation! How lofty are its eyes, and its eyelashes uplifted.
14 A generation! Swords, are its teeth, and, knives, its incisors,—to devour the humbled out of the earth, and the needy, from among men.
15 The vampire, hath two daughters, Give! Give! Three, there are will not be satisfied, four, have not said, Enough!
16 Hades, and barrenness,—A land not satisfied with water, and fire, that saith not, Enough!
17 The eye that mocketh a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young of the eagle shall eat it.
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