15 The leech has two daughters:
    Give and Give.[a]
(A)Three things are never satisfied;
    (B)four never say, “Enough”:
16 (C)Sheol, (D)the barren womb,
    the land never satisfied with water,
    and the fire that never says, “Enough.”

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:15 Or “Give, give,” they cry

15 The leech has two daughters:
    “Give” and “Give”.
Three things will never be satisfied;
    four will never say “Enough”—
16 The afterlife,[a] the barren womb,
    earth that still demands water,
        and fire—they never say, “Enough”.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:16 Lit. Sheol; i.e. the realm of the dead