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15 The leech[a] has two daughters;
    “Give, give,” they cry.
Three things are never satisfied;
    four never say, “Enough”:
16 Sheol, the barren womb,
    the earth ever thirsty for water,
    and the fire which never says, “Enough.”[b]

17 The eye that mocks a father
    and scorns to obey a mother
will be picked out by the ravens of the valley
    and eaten by the vultures.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:15 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  2. Proverbs 30:16 Heb obscure

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