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Proverbs 30:15
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The leech has two daughters,"Give," "Give."There are three things that will not be satisfied,Four that will not say, "Enough":
The leech has two daughters, "Give," "Give." There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say, "Enough":
The horse leache hath two daughters crying: bryng hyther, bryng hyther. There be three thynges that are neuer satisfied, yea foure thynges sayth neuer hoe:
The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three [things] never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough:
The leech has two daughters-- Give and Give! There are three things that are never satisfied, Four never say, "Enough!":
The leech has two daughters crying , Give! Give! Three things are not satisfied, four never have said, Enough!
Greedy people know only two things: "Give me," and "Give me." There are three other things that are never satisfied—really, four things that never have enough:
"The leach has two daughters: 'Give, give.' "There are three things that are never satisfied; Four that don't say, 'Enough:'
The horse-leach hath two daughters, crying, Giue, giue. There are three things that are neuer satisfied, yea foure things say not, It is enough:
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
This generacion (which is like an horsleche) hath two doughters: ye one is called, fetch hither: the other, brynge hither.
A leech has twin daughters named "Gimme" and "Gimme more." 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.
The leech has two daughters, "Give, give!" There are three things that are never satisfied, Four that do not say, "It is enough":
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, Yea, four that say not, Enough:
The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:
The horseleach has two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, [Yes], four that don't say, Enough:
The horse-leech hath two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yes], four [things] say not, [It is] enough:
The leech has two daughters: "Give! Give!" There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, "Enough"—
Greed has twins, each named "Give me!" There are three or four things that are never satisfied:
The leech has two daughters; they cry, "Give! Give!" Three things are never satisfied; four never say, "Enough!" —
The horse leache hath two daughters which crye, Giue, giue. There be three things that will not be satisfied: yea, foure that say not, It is ynough.
A gluttonous man has three beloved daughters. There are three things that are never satisfied; yea, a fourth that never says, It is enough:
"The leach has two daughters: 'Give, give.' "There are three things that are never satisfied; Four that don't say, 'Enough:'
The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.'
The one who lives by the blood of another has two daughters, "Give," "Give." There are three things that are never filled, four that never say, "Enough":
A hungry lion and a thirsty wolf is he, who, being poor, rules over a poor nation.
The horseleach hath two daughters, Crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four that say not, Enough:
The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, "Enough!":
The leech has two daughters; "Give, give," they cry. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, "Enough":
The vampire, hath two daughters, Give! Give! Three, there are will not be satisfied, four, have not said, Enough!
The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. There are three things that never are satisfied, and the fourth never saith: It is enough.
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.
The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, "Enough":
The leech has two daughters: "Give" and "Give." There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say, "Enough":
"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!':
A leech has two daughters, and both are named "Give me!" There are four things that are never satisfied:
The leech has two daughters: "Give, Give!" Three things are never satisfied; four never say, "Enough!":
The watir leche hath twei douytris, seiynge, Brynge, bringe. Thre thingis ben vnable to be fillid, and the fourthe, that seith neuere, It suffisith;
The leech has two daughters; "Give, give," they cry. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, "Enough":
To the leech [are] two daughters, `Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said `Sufficiency;'
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The horseleach: Isaiah 57:3, Ezekiel 16:44-46, Matthew 23:32, John 8:39, John 8:44
Give: Isaiah 56:11, Isaiah 56:12, Hosea 4:18, Micah 7:3, Romans 16:18, 2 Peter 2:3, 2 Peter 2:13-15, Jude 1:11, Jude 1:12
There: Proverbs 30:21, Proverbs 30:24, Proverbs 30:29, Proverbs 6:16, Amos 1:3, Amos 1:6, Amos 1:9, Amos 1:11, Amos 1:13, Amos 2:1, Amos 2:4
It is enough: Heb. Wealth
Reciprocal: Genesis 33:9 - have enough Judges 18:20 - heart Proverbs 27:20 - Hell Ecclesiastes 1:8 - the eye Ecclesiastes 5:10 - He that Ecclesiastes 6:9 - wandering of the desire Habakkuk 2:5 - as hell
Cross-References
Meanwhile, Leah realized that she wasn't getting pregnant anymore, so she took her servant, Zilpah, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Soon Zilpah presented him with a son.
Isn't it enough that you brought us out of Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us here in this wilderness, and that you now treat us like your subjects?
Then Isaiah said, "Listen well, you royal family of David! Isn't it enough to exhaust human patience? Must you exhaust the patience of my God as well?
But you have not merely sinned as they did. You quickly surpassed them in corruption.
As for me, it matters very little how I might be evaluated by you or by any human authority. I don't even trust my own judgment on this point.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The horse leech hath two daughters, [crying], Give, give,.... Or "the blood sucker" l; so it began to be called in the times of Pliny m, to which the last generation of men may well be compared; blood thirsty creatures, that never have enough, and are not satisfied with the flesh of men, nor with their blood; and such particularly the Papists are: and not only this generation of men, but there are three or four things besides, which resemble the horse leech for its insatiableness; for the horse leech has not two daughters only, but more. Some, by her two daughters, understand the two forks of its tongue, which some naturalists say it has; though later ones, and more diligent inquirers into those things, find it has not; but either with its three teeth, or by the compression of its mouth on all sides, sucks the blood, and will not let go until it is filled with it n: others have proposed the two sorts of leeches as its daughters, the sea leech, and that which is found in fenny and marshy places. But it is best, by its daughters, to understand such that resemble it, and are like unto it; as those that are of like nature and quality, and do the same things as others, are called their children; see Matthew 23:31 1 John 3:10; and so the number of its daughters, which are always craving and asking for more, and are never satisfied, are not only two, but more, as follows;
there are three [things]; or, "[yea], there are three [things]"
[that] are never satiated: [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough; not two only, but three, and even four, that are quite insatiable and are as follow. The Syriac version renders the whole thus,
"the horse leech hath three beloved daughters; three, "I say", they are, which are not satisfied; and the fourth says not, It is enough.''
Some, as Abendana observes, interpret it of hell, by a transposition of the letters; because everyone that perverts his ways descends thither. Bochart o interprets it of fate, and so Noldius p: and Schultens renders the word, the most monstrous of evils; it signifying in the Arabic language, as he observes, anything monstrous and dreadful; such as wood demons, serpents, and dragons, which devour men and beasts. Suidas q, by the "horse leech", understands sin, whose daughters are fornication, envy, and idolatry, which are never satisfied by evil actions, and the fourth is evil concupiscence.
l לעלוקה "sanguisugae", V. L. Pagninus, Tigurine version. Mercerus, Gejerus. m Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 10. n "Non missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hirudo", Horat. de Arte Poet. fine. o Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 19. col. 801. p Concord. Ebr. Par. p. 467. No. 1425. q In voce βδελλα.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Note the numeration mounting to a climax, the two, the three, the four (Amos 1:3 etc.). The word rendered “horseleach” is found nowhere else, and its etymology is doubtful; but there are good grounds for taking the word in its literal sense, as giving an example, in the natural world, of the insatiable greed of which the next verse gives other instances. Its voracious appetite is here represented, to express its intensity, as two daughters, uttering the same ceaseless cry for more.
Proverbs 30:16
The grave - Hebrew שׁאול she'ôl. The “Hell” or Hades of Proverbs 27:20, all-consuming yet never full.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 30:15. The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. — "This horseleech," says Calmet, "is COVETOUSNESS, and her two daughters are Avarice and Ambition. They never say, It is enough; they are never satisfied; they are never contented."
Many explanations have been given of this verse; but as all the versions agree in rendering עלוקה alukah the horseleech or blood-sucker, the general meaning collected has been, "There are persons so excessively covetous and greedy, that they will scarcely let any live but themselves; and when they lay hold of any thing by which they may profit, they never let go their hold till they have extracted the last portion of good from it." Horace has well expressed this disposition, and by the same emblem, applied to a poor poet, who seizes on and extracts all he can from an author of repute, and obliges all to hear him read his wretched verses.
Quem vero arripuit, tenet, occiditque legendo,
Non missura cutem, nisi plena cruoris, HIRUDO.
DE ARTE POET., ver. 475.
"But if he seize you, then the torture dread;
He fastens on you till he reads you dead;
And like a LEECH, voracious of his food,
Quits not his cruel hold till gorged with blood."
FRANCIS.
The word אלוקה alukah, which we here translate horseleech, is read in no other part of the Bible. May it not, like Agur, Jakeh, Ithiel, and Ucal, be a proper name, belonging to some well-known woman of his acquaintance, and well known to the public, who had two daughters notorious for their covetousness and lechery? And at first view the following verse may be thought to confirm this supposition: "There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough." the grave, the barren womb, the earth, the fire. What an astonishing similarity there is between this and the following institute, taken from the Code of Hindoo Laws, chap. xx., sec. i., p. 203.
"A woman is never satisfied with the copulation of man, no more than a fire is satisfied with burning fuel; or the main ocean is with receiving the rivers; or death, with the dying of men and animals." You can no more satisfy these two daughters of Alukah than you can the grave, c.
Some of the rabbins have thought that alukah signifies destiny, or the necessity of dying, which they say has two daughters, Eden and Gehenna, paradise and hell. The former has never enough of righteous souls the latter, of the wicked. Similar to them is the opinion of Bochart, who thinks alukah means destiny, and the two daughters, the grave and hell; into the first of which the body descends after death, and into the second, the soul.
The Septuagint gives it a curious turn, by connecting the fifteenth with the sixteenth verse: Τῃ Βδελλῃ θυγατερες ησαν αγαπησει αγαπωμεναι, και αἱ τρεις αὑται ουκ ενεπιμπλασαν αυτην, και ἡ τεταρτη ουκ ηρκεσθη ειπειν· Ἱκανον; "The horseleech had three well-beloved daughters; and these three were not able to satisfy her desire: and the fourth was not satisfied, so as to say, It is enough."
After all, I think my own conjecture the most probable. Alukah is a proper name, and the two daughters were of the description I have mentioned.
