Proverbs 30:16
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Hell and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which is not satisfied with water: and the fire never saith: It is enough.

Proverbs 27:20 Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.

Habakkuk 2:5 And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh it: so shall the proud man be, and he shall not be honoured: who hath enlarged his desire like hell: and is himself like death, and he is never satisfied: but will gather together unto him all nations, and heap together unto him all people.

Context
The Words of Agur
15The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. There are three things that never are satisfied, and the fourth never saith: It is enough. 16Hell and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which is not satisfied with water: and the fire never saith: It is enough.17The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.…
Cross References
Genesis 30:1
And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.

Proverbs 27:20
Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.

Proverbs 30:15
The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. There are three things that never are satisfied, and the fourth never saith: It is enough.

Isaiah 5:14
Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it.

Habakkuk 2:5
And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh it: so shall the proud man be, and he shall not be honoured: who hath enlarged his desire like hell: and is himself like death, and he is never satisfied: but will gather together unto him all nations, and heap together unto him all people.

Lexicon
Sheol,
שְׁאוֹל֮ (šə·’ō·wl)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7585: Underworld (place to which people descend at death)

the barren
וְעֹ֪צֶ֫ר (wə·‘ō·ṣer)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6115: Closure, constraint

womb,
רָ֥חַם (rā·ḥam)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7356: Compassion, the womb, a maiden

land
אֶ֭רֶץ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

that is never
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

satisfied
שָׂ֣בְעָה (śā·ḇə·‘āh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited

with water,
מַּ֑יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

and fire
וְ֝אֵ֗שׁ (wə·’êš)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 784: A fire

that never
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

says,
אָ֥מְרָה (’ā·mə·rāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“Enough!”
הֽוֹן׃ (hō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1952: Wealth, sufficiency


Additional Translations
Sheol, the barren womb, land that is never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, “Enough!”The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that said not, It is enough.

Sheol; and the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough.

The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough.

-- Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that saith not, Enough.

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'

Sheol, and a restrained womb, Earth -- it is not satisfied with water, And fire -- it hath not said, 'Sufficiency,'
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