Proverbs 30:16 (BSB)

Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’

From Proverbs 30. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 30:16

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 30:15-17: He had spoken before of those that devoured the poor (Pro 30:14), and had spoken of them last, as the worst of all the four generations there mentioned; now here he speaks of their insatiableness in doing this. The temper that puts them upon it is made up of cruelty and covetousness.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 30:16: The grave,.... Which is the first of the four daughters, or insatiable things, which resemble the horse leech: the grave is the house appointed for all living; it stands ready for them, it is open to receive them when dead; and though such multitudes have been put into it, since death reigned in the world, yet it is not full, it waits for more; nor...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 30:15-16: Pro 30:15-16 With the characteristic of insatiableness Pro 30:11-14 closes, and there follows an apophthegma de quatuor insatiabilibus quae ideo comparantur cum sanguisuga (C. B. Michaelis). We translate the text here as it lies before us: 15 The ‛Alûka hath two daughters: Give! Give! Three of these are never satisfied; Four say not: Enough!