Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 30:15

15 The horse-leach hath two daughters , crying, Give, give : There are three things that are never satisfied , yea, four things say not , It is enough.

An insatiable Creature, sucking blood till it be ready to burst.

Which are either 1. The two forks into which her Tongue is divided, and wherewith she sucks: But those who have more accurately observed and described the frame of that Creature, tell us that they have no Tongue, and that they suck either by three little teeth, or several parts of the mouth gathered and compressed together. Or rather 2. The following things, which resemble the Horse-leach in its insatiableness, nothing being more ordinary than to call those persons or things the Sons or Daughters of those whose examples they imitate. And whereas it is objected, that they are not only two, but three, yea, four, as is said in the next clause, the Answer is easie, that though he begin with two, yet he proceeds from thence to three, and four, all which are said to be the Daughters of the Horse-leach, if the words be rendred commodiously, and as they are in the Hebrew, as we shall presently see.

Never filled, and always craving, and ready to receive more and more.

Or, yea (which may be understood in this, as it is in our Translation of the next clause) they (to wit, the Daughters of the Horseleach) are three.

Which is added partly to explain the former clause, give, give, and to shew the cause of that excessive desire of more, because they were not contented with what they had; and partly to give the reason why he calls them the Daughters of the Horseleech.

Or, yea, they (the daughters forementioned) are four, which say not.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word]. wealth.