“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.”
Proverbs 30:14 (WEB)
Context Reading
12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes,yet are not washed from their filthiness. 13There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes!Their eyelids are lifted up. 14There 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. 15“The leech has two daughters:‘Give, give.’“There are three things that are never satisfied;four that don’t say, ‘Enough!’: 16Sheol,the barren womb,the earth that is not satisfied with water,and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough!’