Verse Comparison: Proverbs 30:14
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified® Bible
There is a class of people whose teeth are as swords and whose fangs as knives, to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among men.
Contemporary English Version
others are so greedy that they gobble down the poor and homeless.
Darby English Version
-- a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.
Good News Bible
There are people who take cruel advantage of the poor and needy; that is the way they make their living.
King James Version
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.
New American Standard Bible
There is a kind of {man} whose teeth are {like} swords And his jaw teeth {like} knives, To devour the afflicted from the earth And the needy from among men.
New International Version
those whose teeth are swords
and whose jaws are set with knives
to devour the poor from the earth,
the needy from among mankind.
New King James Version
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords,
And whose fangs are like knives,
To devour the poor from off the earth,
And the needy from among men.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
We see a kind of man whose teeth resemble swords And his jaw teeth like knives, To devour the afflicted from the earth And the needy from among men.
Revised Standard Version
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among men.
Young's Literal Translation
A generation -- swords `are' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among' men.
