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“The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give”

(Pro 30:15-18)

[Study Aired June 11, 2026]

In (Pro 30:1-2) that we reviewed last week, we read of the confession of Agur the son of Jakeh, who declared “Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man” (1Co 10:11).

1Co 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Agur represents all mankind who, in God’s time, will come to put their hands on their mouth, like Job and the apostle Paul, by being brought to see that we are the chief of sinners (Job 40:4 , 1Ti 1:15).

Job 40:4  Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

1Ti 1:15  This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

In the following verses we will look at today, this same point of man’s brute beast demeanor (Ecc 3:18) that is further expounded upon, starting with verse 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”. The whole of humanity is represented by the “four things say not, It is enough”  (Eph 2:1-4).

We will look at those “two daughters” as a representation of Aholah and Aholibah (Eze 23:11) that represent stages in our own yet corrupt unconverted hearts needing to be changed by God’s grace. The rest of the proverbs in this chapter focus primarily on the mystery of iniquity, in parables that are hidden from those who are “accusing or else excusing one another”, while in this life not seeing how these things written were meant to be kept or identified as being what is within all of us (Rom 2:4 , Rom 2:15 , Mat 4:4 , Rev 1:3).

Rom 2:15  Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

It is a hidden mystery to the world how God is preparing the bride through Christ (natural Psa 139:14 , spiritual Rev 12:5), and this process of judgement that is upon the elect (1Pe 4:17 , 1Jn 4:17) is what gives us confidence and boldness in this life, not for what we can do in our own weak mortal flesh that needs at first to establish our own righteousness (Php 3:9 , Php 3:3), but for what God can do to prepare the bride and make her ready for the wedding supper as He works in us both to will and to do of God’s good pleasure, which is to give us the kingdom, that is being formed within us by the righteousness of Christ (Rev 19:7 , Php 2:12-13 , Luk 12:32 , Luk 17:21).

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

This section of proverbs helps set the stage for what needs to be changed within us, as we repent of our former conversation (Joh 3:30), and become more and more a representation of the woman of our last chapter of proverbs who represents the bride of Christ (Pro 31:1-31).

Joh 3:30  He must increase, but I must decrease.

Pro 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:

What a word! A horse has power, “horseleach”, and we have power in our flesh that’s given to us of the devil (Rev 13:4) and what we do with that power is suck or “leach” the life of Christ away as we succumb to the slavery to sin that has us quenching the spirit of God (1Th 5:19), until the son of God sets us free (Joh 8:36) from that bondage of “the horseleach that has two daughters”.

Rev 13:4  And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

1Th 5:19  Quench not the Spirit.

There are stages to this depravity of spirit which is witnessed by “two daughters, crying, Give, give”. They cry ‘give, give’ defining the vain selfish nature of flesh that cannot be satisfied or say, “It is enough” (Ecc 1:8).

Ecc 1:8  All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. (1Jn 4:5-6)

This excerpt from Ato’s study in Ezekiel iswasandwillbe.com/ezekiel-2326-49-aholah-and-aholibah-part-2/ summarizes who Aholah and Aholibah represent, and in this proverb we see them being spoken of as “two daughters, crying, Give, give”

“In order to understand the study for today, we have to go back to the earlier verses to understand the context. There were two sisters – Aholah and Aholibah. Aholah was the elder, and she played the harlot with Assyrians who invaded the ten tribes of Israel. As we indicated in the previous study, the two sisters, Aholah and Aholibah, represent the church of the Lord in different dispensations. Aholah represents the church when it was under the law of Moses, and Aholibah signifies the church after the coming of Christ. That is to say that Aholah represents our walk when we did not know Christ and walked in the churches of this world (Aholah) according to the law of Moses. Aholibah signifies our walk when we were still in the churches of this world when Christ started coming to us. The Assyrians represent the false apostles who come in the name of the Lord but are wolves in sheep’s clothing.” [end of quote]

Contentment is something that can only come by having a right relationship with God (1Ti 6:6), and this happens when we are positively drawn by the grace of God toward living waters found in Christ (Joh 6:44 , Psa 23:1-6 , Psa 1:1-3) that satisfy our souls and bring contentment to us. Babylon on the other hand is that “leach” that is desperately trying to make converts for all the wrong reasons (Mat 23:15 , 2Pe 2:19).

Psa 23:1  A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Psa 23:2  He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Psa 23:3  He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Psa 23:4  Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Psa 23:5  Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Psa 23:6  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Psa 1:1  Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Psa 1:2  But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Psa 1:3  And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Mat 23:15  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

2Pe 2:19  While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

Pro 30:16  The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

The positive grave is the one that we are baptized into, bringing life (Rom 6:3), whereas the negative grave being discussed in this proverb is likened unto “the barren womb” that represents Babylon who has no stay of bread or water, meaning no right doctrine, doctrines which we know are likened unto children of which there is none in Babylon.

The grave, the womb and the earth are all symbols of the churches of this world that have no water, no word of God within them (Isa 3:1 , 2Ti 3:5-7), and “the fire that saith not, It is enough” is just another way of describing the natural state of all flesh, the earth that Christ must be in the midst of if we are ever going to overcome and positively quench this fire “the fire that saith not, It is enough” which represents the lies of the devil (Ecc 1:8 , Mat 12:40 , Eph 6:16).

Isa 3:1  For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, [you can’t quench the fiery darts of the devil if you have no water]

2Ti 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2Ti 3:6  For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2Ti 3:7  Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Ecc 1:8  All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Mat 12:40  For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Eph 6:16  Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Pro 30:17  The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

“The eye” represents our perception, and being blinded of our father the devil at that time when we are mocking the spirit, is the first natural default position of all flesh that is “subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope” not having had our eyes and ears open yet to the truth (Rom 8:20-21 , Mat 13:16), causing us to “mocketh at father” [God the Father] with such thoughts and actions as described in these verses (Mat 24:48 , Jud 1:18).

Mat 24:48  But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

Jud 1:18  How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. (Eph 2:1-3)

This is what Adam and Eve did when they yielded to the lies of the devil in the garden (Gen 3:4). God is not mocked however and what we sow we will reap, and what we sow is what God has purposed we would do according to the counsel of His own will (Gal 6:7 , Eph 1:11 , Rom 9:19-21).

Rom 9:19  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Rom 9:20  Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Rom 9:21  Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

Despising the words of the children of God who hold fast to the words of their spiritual mother, Jerusalem above (Gal 4:26), was also prophesied to happen to God’s people by those who “despiseth to obey his mother”(Mat 10:22 , Luk 10:16).

Luk 10:16  He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me;

Mat 10:22  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

It is “the ravens of the valley” who represent the false doctrines, which are evil spirits, that are likened unto fowl (Mat 13:32), found in the churches of Babylon, who will pick out our eye, meaning our perception, and the other unclean bird, the eagle, that represents the false ministers of Babylon [represented by the “Pharisees and of the Sadducees”], ‘will have us for lunch’, “dust you will eat” (Mat 16:6 , Mat 23:15 , Gen 3:14).

Mat 16:6  Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Mat 23:15  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Gen 3:14  And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

If we are being worked with in this age, we will be delivered from the bondage of Babylon that God has purposed that all of humanity must go into in order to ‘come out of her’ at an appointed time (2Co 6:17-18). When we come out of her, the process is reversed and we pluck out our own eye, “better for thee to enter into life with one eye”, meaning the removal or plucking out of the perverted Babylonian beam of self-righteousness (2Th 2:7-8), that then gives us the ability to have a singleness of mind in Christ (2Co 11:3 , Mat 18:9).

2Co 6:17  Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
2Co 6:18  And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

2Co 11:3  But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity^G572 that is in Christ.

simplicityG572  haplotēs hap-lot’-ace: From G573; singleness, that is, (subjectively) sincerity (without dissimulation or self seeking), or (objectively) generosity (copious bestowal): – bountifulness, liberal (-ity), simplicity, singleness. Total KJV occurrences: 8

Mat 18:9  And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

Pro 30:18  There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

This next section of proverbs is introduced with this comment, “There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not”. The “three” represents the judgment of the manchild within the church which is “too wonderful for me”, meaning we are fearfully and wonderfully made, through a process of judgement represented by the number three (Psa 139:14).

Psa 139:14  I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

The whole process of our growing unto maturity in the Lord is a mystery that is not known to our old man but is being revealed to the new creation that God is forming within His workmanship through Christ (1Ti 3:15-16 , Eph 2:10). The “four which I know not”, confirms this point that the whole [4] process of salvation is a gift from God that is His workmanship from start to finish (Eph 2:8-10).

1Ti 3:15  But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
1Ti 3:16  And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9  Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Christ is the author and finisher of our faith, and the use of the numbers ‘three’ and ‘four’ that add up to seven which symbolizes completeness and assures us that what He has started in us He will finish (Heb 12:2).

Heb 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Next week, Lord willing, we will look at the following proverbs that point to that mysterious work of the Lord within the few who are called in this age to be in that blessed and holy first resurrection (Mat 22:14 , Rev 20:6).

Mat 22:14  For many are called, but few are chosen.

Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Pro 30:19  The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Pro 30:20  Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
Pro 30:21  For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
Pro 30:22  For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
Pro 30:23  For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Pro 30:24  There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
Pro 30:25  The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
Pro 30:26  The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
Pro 30:27  The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
Pro 30:28  The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
Pro 30:29  There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
Pro 30:30  A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;
Pro 30:31  A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
Pro 30:32  If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
Pro 30:33  Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.