14There 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.
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My 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.
Arise, 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.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-14)Here is, I. A caution not to abuse other people’s servants any more than our own, nor to make mischief between them and their masters, for it is an ill office, invidious, and what will make a man odious, Prov. 30:10. Consider, 1. It is an injury to the servant, whose poor condition makes him an object of pity, and therefore it is barbarous to add affliction to him that is afflicted: Hurt not a ser…
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