Proverbs 30:8

Each household slave had an allotted portion of food (Proverbs 31:15): God is here the head of the family, weighing out to me 'the bread of my portion' (RM).

9. When in great distress men often blaspheme (Isaiah 8:21; Revelation 16:9). But the meaning may be that he dishonours the name of his God by stealing (Ezekiel 36:20).

11-14. Four classes of detestable people.

15, 16. Read, 'The leech hath two daughters—Give, Give.' There is an Indian proverb: 'Fire is not satiated with wood, nor the ocean with streams, nor death with all the living, nor woman with man.'