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Proverbs 30:16

Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’

Proverbs 30:16 · BSB

Proverbs 30:16 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 30.

12 There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.

13 There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—

14 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.

15 The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:

16 Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’

17 As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

18 There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:

19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.

20 This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

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Proverbs 30:16 in other translations

KJV

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth [that] is not filled with water; and the fire [that] saith not, [It is] enough.

ASV

Sheol; and the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough.

ERV

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that saith not, Enough.

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