Proverbs 30:14 (BSB)

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.

From Proverbs 30. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 30:14

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 30:10-14: 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, Pro 30:10. Consider, 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 30:14: There is a generation whose teeth are as swords,.... As sharp as swords; like such the beasts of prey have; cruel, barbarous, and inhuman creatures; see Psa 57:4; and their jaw teeth as knives; exceeding sharp and biting: to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men: by their tyranny, oppression, and cruelty, to deprive them of the little they...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 30:11-14: Pro 30:11-14 There now follows a Priamel, the first line of which is, by יקלל, connected with the יקללך of the preceding distich: 11 A generation that curseth their father, And doth not bless their mother; 12 A generation pure in their own eyes, And yet not washed from their filthiness; 13 A generation - how haughty their eyes, And their eyelids lift themselves up...