Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “The leech has two daughters. ‘Give! Give!’ they cry. “There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’: New Living Translation The leech has two suckers that cry out, “More, more!” There are three things that are never satisfied— no, four that never say, “Enough!”: English Standard Version The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough”: Berean Standard Bible The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’: King James 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: New King James Version The leech has two daughters— Give and Give! There are three things that are never satisfied, Four never say, “Enough!”: New American Standard Bible The leech has two daughters: “Give” and “Give.” There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say, “Enough”: NASB 1995 The leech has two daughters, “Give,” “Give.” There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say, “Enough": NASB 1977 The leech has two daughters, “Give,” “Give.” There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say, “Enough”: Legacy Standard Bible The leech has two daughters, “Give,” “Give.” There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say, “Enough”: Amplified Bible The leech has two daughters, “Give, give!” There are three things that are never satisfied, Four that do not say, “It is enough”: Christian Standard Bible The leech has two daughters: “Give, Give! ” Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough! ”: Holman Christian Standard Bible The leech has two daughters: “Give, Give!” Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough!": American Standard Version The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, Yea, four that say not, Enough: Aramaic Bible in Plain English Three leeches have three beloved daughters that are not full, and a fourth does not say, "It is enough": Brenton Septuagint Translation The horse-leech had three dearly-beloved daughters: and these three did not satisfy her; and the fourth was not contented so as to say, Enough. Contemporary English Version Greed has twins, each named "Give me!" There are three or four things that are never satisfied: Douay-Rheims Bible 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. English Revised Version The horseleach hath two daughters, Crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four that say not, Enough: GOD'S WORD® Translation The bloodsucking leech has two daughters- "Give!" and "Give!" Three things are never satisfied. Four never say, "Enough!": Good News Translation A leech has two daughters, and both are named "Give me!" There are four things that are never satisfied: International Standard Version The leech has two daughters: "Give" and "Give". Three things will never be satisfied; four will never say "Enough"— JPS Tanakh 1917 The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three things that are never satisfied, Yea, four that say not: 'Enough' : Literal Standard Version To the leech [are] two daughters—Give! Give! Behold, three things are not satisfied, | Four have not said “Sufficiency”; Majority Standard Bible The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’: New American Bible The leech has two daughters: “Give,” and “Give.” Three things never get their fill, four never say, “Enough!” NET Bible The leech has two daughters: "Give! Give!" There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, "Enough"-- New Revised Standard Version The leech has two daughters; “Give, give,” they cry. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough”: New Heart English Bible "The leach has two daughters: 'Give, give.' "There are three things that are never satisfied; four that do not say, 'Enough:' Webster's Bible Translation 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: World English Bible “The leech has two daughters: ‘Give, give.’ “There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don’t say, ‘Enough!’: Young's Literal Translation To the leech are two daughters, 'Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said 'Sufficiency;' Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Words of Agur…14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men. 15The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’: 16Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’… Cross References Proverbs 27:20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. Proverbs 30:14 there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men. Proverbs 30:16 Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, 'Enough!' Treasury of Scripture The horse leach has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yes, four things say not, It is enough: the horseleach Isaiah 57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. Ezekiel 16:44-46 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter… Matthew 23:32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. give Isaiah 56:11,12 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter… Hosea 4:18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye. Micah 7:3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. there Proverbs 30:21,24,29 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: … Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: Amos 1:3,6,9,11,13 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: … it is enough Jump to Previous Cry Crying Daughters Enough Four Full Night-Spirit Satisfied Sufficiency ThreeJump to Next Cry Crying Daughters Enough Four Full Night-Spirit Satisfied Sufficiency ThreeProverbs 30 1. Agur's confession of his faith7. The two points of his prayer 10. The meanest are not to be wronged 11. Four wicked generations 15. Four things insatiable 24. four things exceeding wise 29. Four things stately 32. Wrath is to be prevented (15) 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., the words it would utter, would be "Give, give." So it forms an introduction to the quartette of "insatiable things" which follow.Verses 15, 16. - Having spoken of insatiate cupidity, the writer now introduces four things which are insatiable. The form of the apothegm is climacteric, mounting from two to three, and thence to four, like the famous passage in Amos 1:3, etc. (comp. Proverbs 6:16, though there is no special stress there laid on the last member of the climax; Job 5:19; Job 33:29; Ecclesiastes 11:2). Verse 15. - The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. The word "crying" is not in the Hebrew, which says, "The alukah hath two daughters: Give! Give!" The insatiable appetite of this creature is represented by two words, which are personified as daughters, whom the mother has produced and dearly loves. This word alukah is not found again in the Old Testament; but in later Hebrew and in Aramaic it means "leech" or "bloodsucker;" and so it is translated by the Septuagint, βδέλλα, and by St. Jerome sanguisuga. The word is derived from a root which in Arabic means "to adhere." There are several kinds of leeches common in Palestine, and their bloodthirsty nature is well known; as Horace says, 'Ars Poet.,' 476 - "Non missura cutem, nisi plena cruoris, hirudo." It seems simple and quite satisfactory to accept the word thus, and to see in the voracity of the leech an example of the greed further developed in the following clauses; but commentators have not been contented with this explanation, and have offered various suggestions which are either unnecessary or inadmissible. Thus the Talmud considers alukah to be an appellation of hell, and the two daughters to be the Power of the world, and Heresy. Some of the Fathers regard it as a symbol of the devil and his dominion; others, as a personification of cupidity with its two offshoots avarice and ambition. Some moderns deem it to mean a vampire or blood thirsty demon, a ghoul, in accordance with Eastern myth. But, as we have said, such interpretations are unnecessary and unsupported by sufficient authority. The allusion to the tastes of the leech is found elsewhere. Thus Theocritus, 'Idyll.,' 2:55 - Αι} αι} ἔρως ἀνιαρέ τί μευ μέλαν ἐκ χροὸς αἵμα "Jam ego me convortam in hirudinem atque Hebrew The leechלַֽעֲלוּקָ֨ה ׀ (la·‘ă·lū·qāh) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5936: The leech has two שְׁתֵּ֥י (šə·tê) Number - fdc Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number) daughters: בָנוֹת֮ (ḇā·nō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 1323: A daughter Give הַ֤ב ׀ (haḇ) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 3051: To give, to put, imperatively, come [and] Give. הַ֥ב (haḇ) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 3051: To give, to put, imperatively, come There הֵ֭נָּה (hên·nāh) Pronoun - third person feminine plural Strong's 2007: Themselves are three שָׁל֣וֹשׁ (šā·lō·wōš) Number - feminine singular Strong's 7969: Three, third, thrice [things that] are never לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no satisfied, תִשְׂבַּ֑עְנָה (ṯiś·ba‘·nāh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited four [that] אַ֝רְבַּ֗ע (’ar·ba‘) Number - feminine singular Strong's 702: Four never לֹא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no say, אָ֥מְרוּ (’ā·mə·rū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 559: To utter, say “Enough!”: הֽוֹן׃ (hō·wn) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1952: Wealth, sufficiency Links Proverbs 30:15 NIVProverbs 30:15 NLT Proverbs 30:15 ESV Proverbs 30:15 NASB Proverbs 30:15 KJV Proverbs 30:15 BibleApps.com Proverbs 30:15 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 30:15 Chinese Bible Proverbs 30:15 French Bible Proverbs 30:15 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 30:15 The leach has two daughters: 'Give give (Prov. 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