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16 Sheol[a] and barrenness of womb,
    the land is not satisfied with water,
    and fire does not say “enough!”
17 The eye that mocks a father
    and scorns the obedience of a mother—
the ravens of the valley will peck it out,
    and the offspring of vultures will eat it.
18 Three of these are too wonderful for me,
    and four, I do not understand them:

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:16 A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld