Proverbs Chapter 30 verse 16 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 30:16

Sheol; and the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough.
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BBE Proverbs 30:16

The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.
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DARBY Proverbs 30:16

-- Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.
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KJV Proverbs 30:16

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
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WEB Proverbs 30:16

Sheol, The barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'
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YLT Proverbs 30:16

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - The four insatiable things are now named: first, the grave, sheol (Proverbs 27:20), which can never be filled with its victims. Horace talks of a man as - "Victima nil miserantis Orci."(Carm.,' 2:3, 24.) And Hesiod ('Theog.,' 456) of Hades as - Νηλεὲς ῆτορ ἔχων"A heart possessing that no pity knows." The second thing is the barren womb; "the closing of the womb," as Genesis 20:18; Isaiah 66:9. The burning desire for children, characteristic of an Israelitish wife, is here denoted, like the passionate cry of Rachel to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die" (Genesis 30:1). The barren woman, says Corn. a Lapide, " concubitus magis est avida quam ceterae tum propter desiderium habendae prolis, tum quod foecundae et gravidae naturaliter non appetant concubitum." The third insatiable thing is the earth that is not filled (satisfied) with water; the parched and thirsty soil which no amount of water can satisfy, which drinks in all that is poured upon it and is not benefited, what Virgil ('Georg.,' 1:114) calls "bibula arena." The fourth is the fire that saith not, It is enough; the "devouring element," as the newspapers term it. The more you heap on fire, the more material you supply, the fiercer it rages. Septuagint, "Hades, and the love of woman, and earth not satisfied with water, and water, and fire, will not say, It sufficeth." Cheyne and others quote from the Sanscrit 'Hitopadesa,' "Fire is never satisfied with fuel; nor the ocean with rivers; nor death with all creatures; nor bright-eyed women with men."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) The grave.--See above, on Proverbs 15:11, where it is translated "hell."