Proverbs 30:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, Yea, four things say not, It is enough:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give! There are three things that are never satisfied, yes, four that do not say, It is enough:

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, Yea, four that say not, Enough:

Common English Bible

¹⁵ The leech has two daughters: “Give, give!” There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, “Enough!”:

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ The leech has two daughters, who say, 'Bring, bring.' Three things are insatiable, and a fourth never says 'Enough':

Proverbs 30:15 Cross References

Proverbs 30:29

Three things are stately in their stride; four are stately in their gait:

Proverbs 30:21

Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up:

Proverbs 6:16

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.

John 8:44

You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:39

They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, you would do what Abraham did,

Matthew 23:32

Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord and have not kept his statutes, but they have been led astray by the same lies after which their ancestors walked.

Amos 2:1

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.

Amos 1:13

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

Amos 1:11

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity; he maintained his anger perpetually and kept his wrath forever.

Proverbs 30:24

Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:

Amos 1:9

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered entire communities over to Edom and did not remember the covenant of kinship.

Amos 1:6

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they carried into exile entire communities, to hand them over to Edom.

Amos 1:3

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.

Hosea 4:18

When their drinking is ended, they indulge in sexual orgies; they love lewdness more than their glory.

Isaiah 57:3

But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and human eyes are never satisfied.

Proverbs 30:14

there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.

Proverbs 30:16

Sheol, the barren womb, the earth ever-thirsty for water, and the fire that never says, “Enough.”