16The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-17)He had spoken before of those that devoured the poor (Prov. 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. Now those are two daughters of the horse-leech , its genuine offspring, that still cry, “ Give, give , give more…
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