Proverbs 30:16

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:20 : 20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.
  • Hab 2:5 : 5 Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.
  • Gen 30:1 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 30:14-15
    2 verses
    85%

    14 There is a generation whose teeth are [as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

    15 The horseleach hath two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, [Yea], four that say not, Enough:

  • Prov 27:20
    76%

    20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

  • Prov 30:21
    74%

    21 For three things the earth doth tremble, And for four, [which] it cannot bear:

  • Job 24:18-21
    4 verses
    74%

    18 Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

    19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [So doth] Sheol [those that] have sinned.

    20 The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

    21 He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    72%

    5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; And they that were hungry have ceased [to hunger] : Yea, the barren hath borne seven; And she that hath many children languisheth. [

  • Lam 4:4
    72%

    4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

  • Prov 30:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17 The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

    18 There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not:

  • Mark 9:46
    70%

    46 (Ommitted)

  • Jer 16:3
    70%

    3 For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land:

  • Job 39:16
    70%

    16 She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be in vain, [she is] without fear;

  • Hos 9:14
    70%

    14 Give them, O Jehovah--what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • Eccl 6:7
    70%

    7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

  • Nah 2:10
    69%

    10 She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.

  • Job 27:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

    15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation.

  • Eccl 6:3
    69%

    3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

  • Mark 9:44
    69%

    44 (Ommitted)

  • Jer 50:38
    69%

    38 A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.

  • Job 31:12
    69%

    12 For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

  • Mark 9:48
    69%

    48 where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

  • Luke 23:29
    69%

    29 For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

  • Job 26:6
    69%

    6 Sheol is naked before [God], And Abaddon hath no covering.

  • Ps 107:34
    69%

    34 A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

  • Isa 5:14
    69%

    14 Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend [into it] . [

  • Joel 1:20
    69%

    20 Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

  • Eccl 1:8
    69%

    8 All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter [it] : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

  • Isa 34:10
    69%

    10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

  • Hos 2:3
    68%

    3 lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

  • Job 14:11
    68%

    11 [ As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;

  • Isa 9:18
    68%

    18 For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

  • Job 30:3
    68%

    3 They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

  • Job 21:24-25
    2 verses
    68%

    24 His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened.

    25 And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good.

  • Job 28:5
    68%

    5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

  • Job 3:21
    68%

    21 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

  • Job 31:16
    68%

    16 If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  • Isa 40:16
    68%

    16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.

  • Jer 20:17
    68%

    17 because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

  • Hos 13:13
    68%

    13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.

  • Eccl 5:14
    68%

    14 and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

  • Job 28:14
    68%

    14 The deep saith, It is not in me; And the sea saith, It is not with me.

  • Job 22:7
    68%

    7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

  • Prov 30:11
    68%

    11 There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.

  • Deut 29:23
    68%

    23 [ and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

  • Prov 15:11
    68%

    11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Created by Digify•Powered by SQLExpert
© 2025 Bibelvers. All rights reserved.