Proverbs 30:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

The graue, and the barren wombe, the earth that cannot be satisfied with water, and the fire that sayeth not, It is ynough.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:20 : 20 The graue and destruction can neuer be full, so the eyes of man can neuer be satisfied.
  • Hab 2:5 : 5 Yea, in deede the proude man is as hee that transgresseth by wine: therefore shal he not endure, because he hath enlarged his desire as the hell, and is as death, and can not be satisfied, but gathereth vnto him all nations, and heapeth vnto him all people.
  • Gen 30:1 : 1 And when Rahel saw that she bare Iaakob no children, Rahel enuied her sister, and said vnto Iaakob, Giue me children, or els I dye.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 85%

    14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth, and the poore from among men.

    15The horse leache hath two daughters which crye, Giue, giue. There be three things that will not be satisfied: yea, foure that say not, It is ynough.

  • 20The graue and destruction can neuer be full, so the eyes of man can neuer be satisfied.

  • 21For three things the earth is moued: yea, for foure it cannot susteine it selfe:

  • Job 24:18-21
    4 verses
    74%

    18He is swift vpon the waters: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyardes.

    19As the dry ground and heate consume the snowe waters, so shall the graue the sinners.

    20The pitifull man shall forget him: the worme shal feele his sweetenes: he shalbe no more remebred, & the wicked shalbe broke like a tree.

    21He doth euil intreat ye barren, that doeth not beare, neither doeth he good to the widowe.

  • 5They that were full, are hired foorth for bread, and the hungrie are no more hired, so that the barren hath borne seuen: and shee that had many children, is feeble.

  • 4The tongue of the sucking childe cleaueth to the roofe of his mouth for thirst: the yong children aske bread, but no man breaketh it vnto them.

  • 71%

    17The eye that mocketh his father and despiseth the instruction of his mother, let ye rauens of the valley picke it out, and the yong eagles eate it.

    18There be three thinges hid from me: yea, foure that I knowe not,

  • 46Where their worme dyeth not, & the fire neuer goeth out.

  • 3For thus sayeth the Lorde concerning the sonnes, and concerning the daughters that are borne in this place, & concerning their mothers that beare them, & concerning their fathers, that beget them in this land,

  • 16(39:19) He sheweth himselfe cruell vnto his yong ones, as they were not his, and is without feare, as if he trauailed in vaine.

  • 14O Lorde, giue them: what wilt thou giue them? giue them a baren wombe and drie breasts.

  • 7All the labour of man is for his mouth: yet the soule is not filled.

  • 10She is emptie and voyde and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and sorowe is in all loynes, and the faces of the all gather blackenesse.

  • Job 27:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14If his children be in great nomber, the sworde shall destroy them, and his posteritie shall not be satisfied with bread.

    15His remnant shall be buried in death, and his widowes shall not weepe.

  • 3If a man beget an hundreth children and liue many yeeres, and the dayes of his yeeres be multiplied, & his soule be not satisfied with good things, and he be not buried, I say that an vntimely fruite is better then he.

  • 44Where their worme dyeth not, & the fire neuer goeth out.

  • 38A drought is vpon her waters, and they shall be dried vp: for it is the lande of grauen images, and they dote vpon their idoles.

  • 12Yea, this is a fire that shal deuoure to destructio, & which shal roote out al mine increase,

  • 48Where their worme dyeth not, and the fire neuer goeth out.

  • 29For behold, the dayes wil come, when men shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombes that neuer bare, and the pappes which neuer gaue sucke.

  • 6The graue is naked before him, and there is no couering for destruction.

  • 34And a fruitfull land into barrennes for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.

  • 14Therefore hel hath inlarged it selfe, & hath opened his mouth, without measure, and their glorie, and their multitude, and their pompe, and hee that reioyceth among them, shall descend into it.

  • 20The beasts of the fielde cry also vnto thee: for the riuers of waters are dried vp, and the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernes.

  • 8All things are full of labour: man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.

  • 10It shal not be quenched night nor day: the smoke thereof shall goe vp euermore: it shall be desolate from generation to generation: none shall passe through it for euer.

  • 3Lest I strippe her naked, and set her as in the day that shee was borne, and make her as a wildernes, and leaue her like a drie land, and slaie her for thirst.

  • 11As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp,

  • 18For wickednesse burneth as a fire: it deuoureth the briers and the thornes and will kindle in the thicke places of the forest: and they shall mount vp like the lifting vp of smoke.

  • 3For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.

  • Job 21:24-25
    2 verses
    68%

    24His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.

    25And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.

  • 5Out of the same earth commeth bread, & vnder it, as it were fire is turned vp.

  • 21Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:

  • 16If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile,

  • 16And Lebanon is not sufficient for fire, nor the beastes thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

  • 17Because he hath not slaine me, euen from the wombe, or that my mother might haue bene my graue, or her wobe a perpetual conception.

  • 13The sorowes of a trauailing woman shall come vpon him: he is an vnwise sonne, els would he not stande still at the time, euen at the breaking forth of the children.

  • 14(5:13) And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.

  • 14The depth sayth, It is not in mee: the sea also sayth, It is not with me.

  • 7To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

  • 11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doeth not blesse their mother.

  • 23(For all that land shall burne with brimstone and salt: it shall not be sowen, nor bring forth, nor any grasse shall growe therein, like as in the ouerthrowing of Sodom, and Gomorah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord ouerthrewe in his wrath and in his anger)

  • 11Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more the hearts of the sonnes of men?