Proverbs 30:15 (BSB)

The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:

From Proverbs 30. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 30:15

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 30:15-17: He had spoken before of those that devoured the poor (Pro 30:14), and had spoken of them last, as the worst of all the four generations there mentioned; now here he speaks of their insatiableness in doing this. The temper that puts them upon it is made up of cruelty and covetousness.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 30:15: The horse leech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give,.... Or "the blood sucker" (l); so it began to be called in the times of Pliny (m), to which the last generation of men may well be compared; blood thirsty creatures, that never have enough, and are not satisfied with the flesh of men, nor with their blood; and such particularly the Papists are: and not...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 30:15: horse leech--supposed by some to be the vampire (a fabulous creature), as being literally insatiable; but the other subjects mentioned must be taken as this, comparatively insatiable. The use of a fabulous creature agreeably to popular notions is not inconsistent with inspiration. There are three . . . yea, four--(Compare Pro 6:16).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 30:15: The horseleach hath two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough: (h) The leach has two forks in her tongue, which here he calls her two daughters, by which she sucks the blood, and is never satisfied: even so, the covetous extortioners are insatiable.