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Proverbs 30:12-17 Good News Bible (GNB)

12. There are people who think they are pure when they are as filthy as they can be.

13. There are people who think they are so good — oh, how good they think they are!

14. There are people who take cruel advantage of the poor and needy; that is the way they make their living.

15. A leech has two daughters, and both are named “Give me!”There are four things that are never satisfied:

16. the world of the dead,a woman without children,dry ground that needs rain,and a fire burning out of control.

17. Those who make fun of their father or despise their mother in her old age ought to be eaten by vultures or have their eyes picked out by wild ravens.