Devoured

Luke 20:47 Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

Matthew 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

2 Corinthians 11:20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

Galatians 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulful the lust of the flesh.

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Matthew 13:4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:

“Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class." Alexis_de_Tocqueville

There are few more damaging practices which have consistently degenerated societies and the masses of the nations than their acceptance of and dependence upon the use of "legal charity" through the power of the welfare state. http://preparingyou.com/wiki/Legal_charity

Genesis 31:15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money. 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.

Inflation is the ultimate taxation that begins when you bite your neighbor to get free stuff and ends with you being devoured. http://preparingyou.com/wiki/Bite