Proverbs 30:13-15

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹³There are those—how lofty are their eyes,
    how high their eyelids lift!
¹⁴There are those whose teeth are swords,
    whose teeth are knives,
to devour the poor from off the earth,
    the needy from among men.

¹⁵The leech^[a] has two daughters;
“Give, give,” they cry.
Three things are never satisfied;
four never say, “Enough”:

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Proverbs 30:15 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

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