“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.”
Proverbs 30:14 (BSB)
Context Reading
12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth. 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!’: 16Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’