Proverbs 30:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁶ the grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ The grave; and the barren womb; The earth that is not filled with water; And the fire that saith not, It is enough.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Sheol (the place of the dead), the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water, and the fire that says not, It is enough.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Sheol; and the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ the grave and a barren womb, a land never filled with water, and fire that doesn’t say, “Enough!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Hell, and the mouth of the womb, and a land that is not filled with water. And truly, fire never says, 'Enough.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ 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 30:16 Cross References

Genesis 30:1

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Proverbs 27:20

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Proverbs 30:15

The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

Habakkuk 2:5

Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people.