Proverbs 30:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ The grave; and the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, 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 she said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Proverbs 30:15

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

Isaiah 5:14

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

Habakkuk 2:5

Yea, moreover, wine is a treacherous dealer, a haughty man, and that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as hell, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.