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Proverbs 30:15

World English Bible

“The leech has two daughters:
‘Give, give.’
“There are three things that are never satisfied;
four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’

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Proverbs 30:15 in other translations

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

Proverbs 30:15 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 30:15 in context

  1. 13There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes!
    Their eyelids are lifted up.
  2. 14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords,
    and their jaws like knives,
    to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
  3. 15“The leech has two daughters:
    ‘Give, give.’
    “There are three things that are never satisfied;
    four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’
  4. 16Sheol,
    the barren womb;
    the earth that is not satisfied with water;
    and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’
  5. 17“The eye that mocks at his father,
    and scorns obedience to his mother:
    the ravens of the valley shall pick it out,
    the young eagles shall eat it.