Proverbs 30:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

The grave, and the barren womb, the earth that is never filled with water, and the fire that never says, It is enough.

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  • Prov 27:20 : 20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
  • Hab 2:5 : 5 Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither stays at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all people:
  • Gen 30:1 : 1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die."

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    21For three things the earth is disturbed, and for four it cannot bear:

  • Job 24:18-21
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    18He is as swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.

    19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does the grave those who have sinned.

    20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and wickedness shall be broken like a tree.

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    4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.

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    14Give them, O LORD: what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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