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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

15 “The leech has two daughters.
    ‘Give! Give!’ they cry.

“There are three things that are never satisfied,(A)
    four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
16 the grave,(B) the barren womb,
    land, which is never satisfied with water,
    and fire, which never says, ‘Enough!’

17 “The eye that mocks(C) a father,
    that scorns an aged mother,
will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley,
    will be eaten by the vultures.(D)

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