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Proverbs 30:13-16
The Message
Proverbs 30:13-16
The Message
13 Don’t be stuck-up
and think you’re better than everyone else.
14 Don’t be greedy,
merciless and cruel as wolves,
Tearing into the poor and feasting on them,
shredding the needy to pieces only to discard them.
15-16 A freeloader has twin daughters
named “Gimme” and “Gimme more.”
Four Insatiables
Three things are never satisfied,
no, there are four that never say, “That’s enough, thank you!”—
hell,
a barren womb,
a parched land,
a forest fire.
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Proverbs 30:13-15
New International Version
Proverbs 30:13-15
New International Version
13 those whose eyes are ever so haughty,(A)
whose glances are so disdainful;
14 those whose teeth(B) are swords
and whose jaws are set with knives(C)
to devour(D) the poor(E) from the earth
and the needy from among mankind.(F)
15 “The leech has two daughters.
‘Give! Give!’ they cry.
“There are three things that are never satisfied,(G)
four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
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