Proverbs 30:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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 - Albert 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 gro...
Proverbs 30:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The horseleach hath two (h) daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough: (h) The leach has two forks in her tongu...
Proverbs 30:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 30. The Sayings of Agur. It is uncertain whether the title embraces the whole chapter or Proverbs 30:1-9 , or Proverbs 30:1-4 only. Proverbs 30:1 . The title is extremely obscure, a...
Proverbs 30:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

horseleach. Occurs only here. It is like the "flesh" in man. In the natural and spiritual spheres "the dose has to be increased".
Proverbs 30:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The horseleach hath two daughters, crying , Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea , four things say not, It is enough: The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Gi...
Proverbs 30:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The horse-leach hath two daughters— This passage seems in my judgment, says Bishop Patrick, to be an answer to some such question as this (which the scholars had propounded to Agur, after the manne...
Proverbs 30:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: Four insatiable things follow the four detestabl...
Proverbs 30:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Words of Agur The simplest way of treating the title is to read as follows: 'The words of Agur, son of Yakeh, of Massa.' Then we may proceed, with RM, 'The man saith, I have wearied myself,...
Proverbs 30:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. — The word “crying” is not in the Hebrew. The leech is here chosen as the emblem of insatiable greed; if it could speak, its “daughters,” i.e...
Proverbs 30:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 31 THE WORDS OF AGUR THE rendering of the first verse of this chapter is very uncertain. Without attempting to discuss the many conjectural emendations, we must briefly indicate the view...
Proverbs 30:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Advice of a Shrewd Observer Proverbs 30:1-17 This chapter contains a collection of sayings of one person, Agur, of whom we know nothing further. It is supposed that he lived after the retur...
Proverbs 30:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This and the following chapter constitute an appendix to the Book of Proverbs. It is impossible to say who Agur was. In this selection from his writings we have an introduction, in which he a r m s t...
Proverbs 30:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not f...
Proverbs 30:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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; bl...
Proverbs 30:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The horseleach hath two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough: Ver. 15. The horseleech a hath two daught...
Proverbs 30:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The horseleech An insatiable creature, sucking blood till it be ready to burst; hath two daughters The following things, which resemble the horseleech in their insatiableness, nothing being more...
Proverbs 30:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

In THE FIVE Chapter S now completed are proverbs of Solomon copied out by Hezekiah's servants. The last two Chapter s show a distinct change in character, both being called "prophecies," and written...
Proverbs 30:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Four Things Unsearchable. 15 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are...
Proverbs 30:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The horseleech, an insatiable creature, sucking blood till it be ready to burst, hath two daughters; which are either, 1. The two forks into which her tongue is divided, and wherewith she sucks...
Proverbs 30:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 30:15 . Horseleech , or “ vampire , an imaginary spectre or ghost, supposed to suck the blood of children.” (Stuart.) Proverbs 30:15-16 . On these verses, Dr. Aike...
Proverbs 30:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 30:1 . The words of Agur. The style of this book seems to be much older than that of Solomon. Its simplicity very well agrees with the times of the patriarchs, or when the judges presided...
Proverbs 30:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 30:1-20 Part VII. FIRST APPENDIX TO THE SECOND COLLECTION , containing "the words of Agur." A short introduction, teaching that the Word of God is the sourc...
Proverbs 30:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

God's Word as the Source and Dispenser of all Wisdom
Proverbs 30:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 2:13-15 ; 2 Peter 2:3 ; Amos 1:11 ; Amos 1:13 ; Amos 1:3 ; Amos 1:6 ; Amos 1:9 ; Amos 2:1 ; Amos 2:4 ; Ezekiel 16:44-46 ; Hosea 4:18 ; Isaiah 56:11 ; Isaiah 56:12 ; Isaiah 57:3...
Proverbs 30:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The horse — leach — An insatiable creature, sucking blood 'till it is ready to burst. Two daughters — The following things resemble the horse — leach in its insatiableness; nothing being more ordin...

Proverbs 30:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 30:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Proverbs 30:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 30:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 30:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 30:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 30:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 30:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 30:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 30:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 30:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 30:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 30:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 30:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 30:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 30:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 30:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 30:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 30:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 30:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 30:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 30:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 30:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 30:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 30:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes