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15 “The leech has two daughters:
    ‘Give, give.’

“There are three things that are never satisfied;
    four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’
16     Sheol,[a]
    the barren womb,
    the earth that is not satisfied with water,
    and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’

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Footnotes

  1. 30:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.

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