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. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Ps 3:7Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
• Ps 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
• Job 29:17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
• Amos 8:4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
• Ps 58:6Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
• Ps 12:5“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
• Rev 9:8They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.
• Eccl 4:1Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who 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 lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
• Mic 2:1–2Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Prov 22:16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
• Prov 28:3A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
• Prov 12:18There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
• Mic 3:1–5I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• Amos 2:7They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
• Isa 32:7The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
• Ps 52:2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Zeph 3:3Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
• Jas 5:1–4Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Dan 7:5–7Behold, another animal, a second, like a bear; and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.
• Amos 4:1Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
• Hab 3:14You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

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