Proverbs 30:16

New King James Version

The grave, The barren womb, The earth that is not satisfied with water— And the fire never says, “Enough!”

Cross References

Genesis 30:1

Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to 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 leech has two daughters— Give and Give! There are three things that are never satisfied, Four never say, “Enough!”:

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself And opened its mouth beyond measure; Their glory and their multitude and their pomp, And he who is jubilant, shall descend into it.

Habakkuk 2:5

“Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man, And he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his desire as hell, And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations And heaps up for himself all peoples.