Proverbs 30:13-15
Easy-to-Read Version
13 Some people are so proud of themselves, and they look down on everyone else.
14 There are people whose teeth are like swords and their jaws like knives. They take everything they can from the poor.
15 Greedy people know only two things[a]: “Give me,” and “Give me.” There are three other things that are never satisfied—really, four things that never have enough:
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- Proverbs 30:15 Literally, “A leech has two daughters.”
Proverbs 30:13-15
King James Version
13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
15 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
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