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# The leech has two daughters
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This is an example of something that always wants more. AT: "Greed has two daughters" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# leech
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a type of worm that attaches itself to the skin and sucks blood
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# "Give and give" they cry
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Another possible meaning is "and they are both named Give Me."
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# There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, "Enough"
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This use of the numbers "three" and "four" together here is likely a poetic device. AT: "There are four things that are never satisfied, who never say, 'Enough'" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry]])
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# are never satisfied
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This can be stated positively. AT: "always want more" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-litotes]])
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# land that is never satisfied with water
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Land that is no longer producing food because there has been no rain is spoken of as if it were a person who does not have enough water to drink. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# scorns obedience to a mother
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The word "obedience" is a metonym for the mother herself. It is also an abstract noun that can be stated as "obey." AT: "considers his mother worthless and will not obey her" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# his eyes ... the vultures
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The writer says that the person will die by giving two pictures of what happens to people who die away from where people live.
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# his eyes will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley
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This can be translated in active form. AT: "the ravens of the valley will peck out his eyes" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# ravens
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large, shiny, black birds that eat plants and dead animals
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# he will be eaten by the vultures
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This can be translated in active form. AT: "the vultures will eat him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# vultures
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any one of several large birds that eat dead animals and have small, featherless heads |