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15 The leech has two daughters:
    “Give” and “Give”.
Three things will never be satisfied;
    four will never say “Enough”—
16 The afterlife,[a] the barren womb,
    earth that still demands water,
        and fire—they never say, “Enough”.

17 The eye that mocks a father
    and looks with a disobedient attitude at[b] a mother—
the valley ravens will pluck it out;
    and vultures will eat it.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:16 Lit. Sheol; i.e. the realm of the dead
  2. Proverbs 30:17 Lit. and despises obedience to