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14 Some people[a] have swords for teeth
    and knives for fangs
to devour the afflicted from the earth
    and the needy from among mankind.

15 The leech has two daughters:
    “Give” and “Give”.
Three things will never be satisfied;
    four will never say “Enough”—
16 The afterlife,[b] the barren womb,
    earth that still demands water,
        and fire—they never say, “Enough”.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:14 Lit. A generation
  2. Proverbs 30:16 Lit. Sheol; i.e. the realm of the dead