George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 30:15
The horse-leech: concupiscence, which hath two daughters that are never satisfied, viz., lust and avarice. (Challoner)
The horse-leech: concupiscence, which hath two daughters that are never satisfied, viz., lust and avarice. (Challoner)
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 s...
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...
VI. THE WORDS OF AGUR THE SON OF JAKEH CHAPTER 30 Some hold that Agur is another name for Solomon. This opinion is also upheld by the Talmud, which speaks of six names which belonged to the King: Sol...
PROVERBS 30. THE SAYINGS OF AGUR. It is uncertain whether the title embraces the whole chapter or Proverbs 30:1, or Proverbs 30:1 only. Proverbs 30:1. The title is extremely obscure, and has been much...
HORSELEACH. Occurs only here. It is like the "flesh" in man. In the natural and spiritual spheres "the dose has to be increased"....
Four things that are INSATIABLE....
_The horseleach_ βδέλλα, LXX.; sanguisuga, Vulg. The Heb. word occurs only here, and its derivation is doubtful, but as Maurer points out, the rendering _leach_has the sanction of the ancient interpre...
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 manner o...
TEXT Proverbs 30:11-20 11. There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother. 12. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, And yet are not washed from their...
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 detestable off...
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, O God;...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 30 THE PUZZLES OF AGUR AND LEMUEL (PROVERBS 30:1 TO PROVERBS 31:9) These passages are by Agur ...
A leech is a small animal that drinks blood. The leech bites a person. Then the leech holds that person’s skin. Then the leech drinks the person’s blood. The person cannot remove the leech while the l...
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.,_...
לַֽ עֲלוּקָ֨ה ׀ שְׁתֵּ֥י בָנֹות֮ הַ֤ב ׀ הַ֥ב...
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 whic...
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 return from...
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 th...
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 tongue...
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 fi...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
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...
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 daughter...
_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 c...
The horse-leech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give! never being satisfied with what they have already gotten. THERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT ARE NEVER SATISFIED, YEA, FOUR THINGS SAY NOT, IT IS ENOUG...
GOD'S WORD AS THE SOURCE AND DISPENSER OF ALL WISDOM...
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 b...
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: but...
Proverbs 30:15 leech H5936 two H8147 Give H3051 (H8798) Give H3051 (H8798) three H7969 satisfied H7646 ...
CONTENTS: The words of Agur. CHARACTERS: God, Agur, Ithiel, Ucal. CONCLUSION: God's Word is sure and pure, and venturing our souls upon it, we shall find it a shield against temptations, a safe prot...
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. H...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 30:1 The Sayings of Agur. The identity of Agur, son of Jakeh, is unknown. One claim is that the word translated ORACLE actually should be the proper name “Massa,” so that v....
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 30:15 The LEECH has TWO DAUGHTERS, both named GIVE. The saying probably alludes to the two suckers on a leech’s body. It may have been a common way to describ
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 30:15. HORSELEECH, or “_vampire_, an imaginary spectre or ghost, supposed to suck the blood of children.” _(Stuart.)_ PROVERBS 30:15. On these verses, Dr. Aiken, the America...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 30:1 PART VII. FIRST APPENDIX TO THE SECOND COLLECTION, containing "the words of Agur." A short introduction, teaching that the Word of God is the source of wisdom ...
This is the end of the proverbs that were gathered by Hezekiah's men. Now in the thirtieth chapter we have, The words of Agur (Proverbs 30:1) Whoever he is. He tells us who he is, but it really does...
2 Peter 2:13; 2 Peter 2:3; Amos 1:11; Amos 1:13; Amos 1:3;...
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 ordinary...