15 The leech has two daughters:
    Give and Give.[a]
(A)Three things are never satisfied;
    (B)four never say, “Enough”:
16 (C)Sheol, (D)the barren womb,
    the land never satisfied with water,
    and the fire that never says, “Enough.”

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:15 Or “Give, give,” they cry

“Moreover, wine[a] is (A)a traitor,
    an arrogant man who is never at rest.[b]
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
    like death (B)he has never enough.
(C)He gathers for himself all nations
    and collects as his own all peoples.”

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:5 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth
  2. Habakkuk 2:5 The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain

12 like Sheol let us (A)swallow them alive,
    and whole, like (B)those who go down to the pit;

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