Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose savage greed devours the poor and needy.

Cross-references · 24

• Ps 57:4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Ps 3:7Arise, 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.
• Ps 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
• Job 29:17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
• Amos 8:4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
• Ps 58:6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
• Ps 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
• Rev 9:8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
• Eccl 4:1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
• Ps 10:8–9He 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.
• Mic 2:1–2Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Prov 22:16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
• Prov 28:3A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
• Prov 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
• Mic 3:1–5And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
• Matt 23:13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
• Amos 2:7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
• Isa 32:7The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
• Ps 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Zeph 3:3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
• Jas 5:1–4Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
• Dan 7:5–7And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
• Amos 4:1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
• Hab 3:14Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

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