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15 The leech has two daughters;
    they cry, “Give! Give!”
Three things are never satisfied;
four never say, “Enough!” —
16     Sh’ol and a barren womb;
    the earth, never satisfied with water;
    and fire, which never says, “Enough!”

17 The eye that mocks his father
    and scorns obeying his mother
will be pecked out by the ravens in the valley,
    and the vultures will eat it.

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