Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 56:11

11 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 .

Insatiably covetous.

Heb. that know not to understand, that do not care, or love, or desire (as knowing is frequently taken) either to understand the Law, or Word of God themselves, or to make the People to understand it.

They regard neither Gods Command and Glory, nor the Peoples good, but only the satisfaction of their own base Lusts. See on Isa. 53. 6.

In their several places and stations, as they have opportunity: Heb. from his or their end or extremity, i. e. universally, or all from one end of that Body or Society of men unto the other: as the same word signifies Gen. 19. 4. from one end of the City to the other, or, as we there render it, from every quarter: and as the same word is by divers learned Men rendred 1 Kin. 12. 31. not of the meanest of the people, but out of all the people, or indifferently out of every Tribe: of which see my note there. But if that Phrase be rightly rendred there, out of the meanest of the people, as divers also expound the same Phrase, Gen. 47. 2. of the meanest of his Brethren; why may it not as well be rendred here, even from the meanest or poorest of his flock, which is a great aggravation of their covetousness and cruelty, to extort gains from such as needed their Charity.

Marginal references: Heb. strong of appetite.; Heb. know not to be satisfied.; Ezek. 34. 2, 3.; Ch. 53. 6. & 57. 17.