[693] Cf. the Sanscrit Hitopadesa, "Fire is never satisfied with fuel, nor the ocean with rivers, nor death with all creatures, nor bright-eyed women with men;" also the Arabic proverb, "Three things are of three never full, women's womb of man, wood of fire, and earth of rain."
[694] Joel ii. 7.
[695] Prov. xxxi. 1-9.
[696] Prov. xxxi. 10-31.
[697] E.g., בַּר ver. 2 and מְלָכִין ver. 3: cf. the strange expressions כָּל־בְּנֵי־עֹנִי and כָּל־בְּנֵי הֲלוֹף in vv. 5, 8.
[698] Prov. xxxi. 8, 9.
[699] Prov. xxii. 14, xxiii. 27.
[700] Prov. xix. 13, xxi. 9, xxv. 24, xxi. 19, xxvii. 15.
[701] Prov. xxvii. 16.
[702] Prov. xi. 22.