And whose fangs are like knives,
bTo devour the poor from off the earth,
And the needy from among men.
Give and Give!
There are three things that are never satisfied,
Four never say, “Enough!”:
The barren womb,
The earth that is not satisfied with water—
And the fire never says, “Enough!”
And scorns obedience to his mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young eagles will eat it.
The way of a serpent on a rock,
The way of a ship in the1 midst of the sea,
And the way of a man with a virgin.
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Proverbs 30:15-16
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 ׁ she 'ôl . The "Hell" or Hades of Proverbs 27:20, all-consuming yet never full.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Proverbs 30:15:
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