PROVERBS CHAPTER 30
The Maxims of Agur, the Son of Jakeh.
GOD’S WORD AS THE SOURCE AND DISPENSER OF ALL WISDOM. — V. 15. The horse-leech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give! never being satisfied with what they have already gotten.
There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: v. 16. the grave, although the number of dead are placed into it in endless succession, and the barren womb, where conception and birth is not possible, the earth is not filled with water, though tons of rain fall in every shower, and the fire that saith not, It is enough, being known as the most insatiable of the ancient elements.
V. 17. The eye that mocketh at his father, pride and contempt being shown especially in the eye, and despiseth to obey his mother, in deliberate waywardness and disobedient scorn, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, when the unburied corpse becomes carrion, and the young eagles shall eat it, such being the punishment of the Lord upon those who despise His representatives on earth and therefore set aside His authority.