Proverbs 30:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ Sheol, the barren womb, the earth ever thirsty for water, and the fire which never says, “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.'

Proverbs 30:16 Križne Reference

Genesis 30:1

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

Proverbs 27:20

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

Proverbs 30:15

The leech has two daughters; “Give, give,” they cry. 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 go down, her throng and he who exults in her.

Habakkuk 2:5

Moreover, wine is treacherous; the arrogant man shall not abide. 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.”