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Prov. 30:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, πIt is enough:

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The horseleach.

Isa. 57:3• ³But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot. (Isa. 57:3)

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Ezek. 16:44‑46• ⁴⁴Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall speak in a proverb against thee, saying, As the mother, so is her daughter!
⁴⁵Thou art the daughter of thy mother that loathed her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
⁴⁶And thine elder sister is Samaria that dwelleth at thy left hand, she and her daughters; and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. (Ezek. 16:44‑46)

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Matt. 23:32• ³²and *ye*, fill ye up the measure of your fathers. (Matt. 23:32)

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John 8:39,44• ³⁹They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham;
⁴⁴Ye are of the devil, as your father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father: (John 8:39,44)

Give.

Isa. 56:11‑12• ¹¹and the dogs are greedy, they know not to be satisfied, and these are shepherds that know not how to discern: they all turn to their own way, every one for his gain, even to the last of them:
¹²Come, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant. (Isa. 56:11‑12)

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Hos. 4:18• ¹⁸Their drink is sour; they give themselves up to whoredom; her great men passionately love their shame. (Hos. 4:18)

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Mic. 7:3• ³Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge is there for a reward; and the great man uttereth his soul's greed: and together they combine it. (Mic. 7:3)

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Rom. 16:18• ¹⁸For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting. (Rom. 16:18)

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2 Peter 2:3,13‑15• ³And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.
¹³receiving the reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you;
¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁵having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness; (2 Peter 2:3,13‑15)

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Jude 11‑12• ¹¹Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
¹²These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together with you without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by the winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up; (Jude 11‑12)

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Prov. 30:21,24,29• ²¹Under three things the earth is disquieted, and under four it cannot bear up:
²⁴There are four things little upon the earth, and they are exceeding wise:
²⁹There are three things which have a stately step, and four are comely in going: (Prov. 30:21,24,29)

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Prov. 6:16• ¹⁶These six things doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him: (Prov. 6:16)

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Amos 1:3,6,9,11,13• ³Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke my sentence, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.
⁶Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gazah, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom.
⁹Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant.
¹¹Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity; and his anger did tear continually, and he kept his wrath for ever.
¹³Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border. (Amos 1:3,6,9,11,13)

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Amos 2:1,4• ¹Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.
⁴Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have despised the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes; and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers walked. (Amos 2:1,4)

It is enough.

Heb. Wealth.

• “Like a leech voracious of his food,” he never feeds to satiety. The two daughters are perhaps simply a symbolical way of declaring this characteristic of the blood-sucker of Arabia. But I have followed Prof. Noyes and Prof. Stuart in regarding the words “Give! Give!” as their names. The name is the index to their wretched habits. (“Proverbs Thirty” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three things never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough: