Proverbs 30:15-16 - Exposition

Having spoken of insatiate cupidity, the writer now introduces four things which are insatiable. The form of the apothegm is climacteric, mounting from two to three, and thence to four, like the famous passage in Amos 1:3 , etc. (comp. Proverbs 6:16 , though there is no special stress there laid on the last member of the climax; Job 5:19 ; Job 33:29 ; Ecclesiastes 11:2 ).