Proverbs 30:16

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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.