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# There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jawbones are knives, so they may devour the poor ... and the needy

This is a metaphor for being cruel and treating poor and needy people cruelly, like an animal with sharp teeth that tears apart other animals and eats them. The sharp teeth may be a metaphor specifically for cruel words. Devouring the poor and needy may be specifically about taking poor people's possessions, leaving them even poorer. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])

# There is a generation whose teeth

"Some people's teeth" or "Stay away from people whose teeth." See how you translated similar words in [Proverbs 30:11](./11.md).

# jawbones

the bones of the face where teeth grow