Proverbs 30:16
The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 27:20 : 20 The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
- Hab 2:5 : 5 A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.
- Gen 30:1 : 1 Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.
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- Prov 30:14-152 verses85%
14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.
15 The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:
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20 The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
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21 For three things the earth is moved, and there are four which it will not put up with:
- Job 24:18-214 verses74%
18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.
19 Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.
20 The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
21 He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.
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5 Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.
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4 The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.
- Prov 30:17-182 verses71%
17 The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
18 There are three things, the wonder of which overcomes me, even four things outside my knowledge:
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3 For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:
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16 Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
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14 O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.
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7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
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10 Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.
- Job 27:14-152 verses69%
14 If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.
15 When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.
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3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
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38 A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.
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12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
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48 Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out.
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29 For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.
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6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
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34 He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.
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14 For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.
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20 The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.
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8 All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.
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10 It will not be put out day or night; its smoke will go up for ever: it will be waste from generation to generation; no one will go through it for ever.
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3 For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.
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11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;
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18 For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.
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3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
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24 His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.
25 And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.
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5 As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.
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21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;
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16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
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16 And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its cattle enough for a burned offering.
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17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
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13 The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.
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14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
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14 The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.
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7 You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.
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11 There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
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23 And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:
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11 Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!