◄ Proverbs 30:16 ►
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Good News Translation
the world of the dead, a woman without children, dry ground that needs rain, and a fire burning out of control.

New Revised Standard Version
Sheol, the barren womb, the earth ever thirsty for water, and the fire that never says, “Enough.”

Contemporary English Version
The world of the dead and a childless wife, the thirsty earth and a flaming fire.

New American Bible
Sheol, a barren womb, land that never gets its fill of water, and fire, which never says, “Enough!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hell and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which is not satisfied with water: and the fire never saith: It is enough.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hell and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which is not satisfied with water: and the fire never saith: It is enough.

Proverbs 27:20 Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.

Habakkuk 2:5 And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh it: so shall the proud man be, and he shall not be honoured: who hath enlarged his desire like hell: and is himself like death, and he is never satisfied: but will gather together unto him all nations, and heap together unto him all people.

Context
The Words of Agur
…15The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. There are three things that never are satisfied, and the fourth never saith: It is enough. 16Hell and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which is not satisfied with water: and the fire never saith: It is enough.17The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.…
Cross References
Genesis 30:1
And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.

Proverbs 27:20
Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.

Proverbs 30:15
The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. There are three things that never are satisfied, and the fourth never saith: It is enough.

Isaiah 5:14
Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it.

Habakkuk 2:5
And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh it: so shall the proud man be, and he shall not be honoured: who hath enlarged his desire like hell: and is himself like death, and he is never satisfied: but will gather together unto him all nations, and heap together unto him all people.

Proverbs 30:15
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