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Proverbs 30:15

15 The leech has two daughters—

Give and Give!

There are three things that are never satisfied,

Four never say, “Enough!”:

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Proverbs 30:15 — The New International Version (NIV)

15 “The leech has two daughters.

‘Give! Give!’ they cry.

“There are three things that are never satisfied,

four that never say, ‘Enough!’:

Proverbs 30:15 — English Standard Version (ESV)

15 The leech has two daughters:

Give and Give.

Three things are never satisfied;

four never say, “Enough”:

Proverbs 30:15 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

15 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.

There are three things that are never satisfied,

Yea, four things say not, It is enough:

Proverbs 30:15 — New Living Translation (NLT)

15 The leech has two suckers

that cry out, “More, more!”

There are three things that are never satisfied—

no, four that never say, “Enough!”:

Proverbs 30:15 — New Century Version (NCV)

15 “Greed has two daughters

named ‘Give’ and ‘Give.’

There are three things that are never satisfied,

really four that never say, ‘I’ve had enough!’:

Proverbs 30:15 — American Standard Version (ASV)

15 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.

There are three things that are never satisfied,

Yea, four that say not, Enough:

Proverbs 30:15 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

15 The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three things never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough:

Proverbs 30:15 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

15 The bloodsucking leech has two daughters—“Give!” and “Give!” 

Three things are never satisfied. 

Four never say, “Enough!”: 

Proverbs 30:15 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

15 The leech has two daughters: “Give, Give!”

Three things are never satisfied;

four never say, “Enough!”:

Proverbs 30:15 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

15 The leech has two daughters;

“Give, give,” they cry.

Three things are never satisfied;

four never say, “Enough”:

Proverbs 30:15 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

15 For the leech, there are two daughters;

“Give, give!” they cry.

As for three of these, they are not satisfied;

as for four, they do not say enough.

Proverbs 30:15 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

15 “A bloodsucking worm has two daughters.

They cry out, ‘Give! Give!’

“Three things are never satisfied.

Four things never say, ‘Enough!’

Proverbs 30:15 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

15 The leech has two daughters,

Give,” “Give.”

There are three things that will not be satisfied,

Four that will not say, “Enough”:


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