Proverbs 30:16

English Standard Version 2016

Sheol, the barren womb, the land never satisfied with water, and the fire that never says, “Enough.”

Cross References

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.

Habakkuk 2:5

“Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.”

Genesis 30:1

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”

Proverbs 30:15

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

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude will go down, her revelers and he who exults in her.