Proverbs 30:16

The Scriptures 1998

The grave, and the barren womb, Soil not satisfied with water, And fire which never says, “Enough.”

Cross References

Genesis 30:1

And when Raḥ

Proverbs 27:20

The grave and destruction are not satisfied; So the eyes of man are not satisfied.

Proverbs 30:15

The leech has two daughters: “Give! Give!” Three are not satisfied, Four that never say, “Enough”:

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore the grave has made itself wide and opened its mouth beyond measure. Their splendour and their crowd and their uproar, and he who is exulting within her, shall go down into it.

Habakkuk 2:5

“And also, because wine betrays him, a man is proud, and he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his appetite as the grave, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, and gathers to himself all nations and heaps up for himself all peoples.