Proverbs 30

¹The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle.
The man declares, I am weary, O God;
I am weary, O God, and worn out.

²Surely I am too stupid to be a man.
I have not the understanding of a man.

³I have not learned wisdom,
nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.

⁴Who has ascended to heaven and come down?
Who has gathered the wind in his fists?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is his son’s name?
Surely you know!

⁵ Every word of God proves true;
he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

⁶ Do not add to his words,
lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.
⁷Two things I ask of you;
deny them not to me before I die:

⁸Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that is needful for me,

⁹lest I be full and deny you
and say, “Who is the Lord?”
or lest I be poor and steal
and profane the name of my God.

¹⁰ Do not slander a servant to his master,
lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

¹¹There are those who curse their fathers
and do not bless their mothers.

¹²There are those who are clean in their own eyes
but are not washed of their filth.

¹³There are those—how lofty are their eyes,
how high their eyelids lift!

¹⁴There are those whose teeth are swords,
whose fangs are knives,
to devour the poor from off the earth,
the needy from among mankind.

¹⁵The leech has two daughters:
Give and Give.
Three things are never satisfied;
four never say, “Enough”:

¹⁶ Sheol, the barren womb,
the land never satisfied with water,
and the fire that never says, “Enough.”

¹⁷The eye that mocks a father
and scorns to obey a mother
will be picked out by the ravens of the valley
and eaten by the vultures.

¹⁸ Three things are too wonderful for me;
four I do not understand:

¹⁹the way of an eagle in the sky,
the way of a serpent on a rock,
the way of a ship on the high seas,
and the way of a man with a virgin.

²⁰This is the way of an adulteress:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I have done no wrong.”

²¹Under three things the earth trembles;
under four it cannot bear up:

²² a slave when he becomes king,
and a fool when he is filled with food;

²³ an unloved woman when she gets a husband,
and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.

²⁴ Four things on earth are small,
but they are exceedingly wise:

²⁵ the ants are a people not strong,
yet they provide their food in the summer;

²⁶ the rock badgers are a people not mighty,
yet they make their homes in the cliffs;

²⁷the locusts have no king,
yet all of them march in rank;

²⁸the lizard you can take in your hands,
yet it is in kings’ palaces.

²⁹ Three things are stately in their tread;
four are stately in their stride:

³⁰the lion, which is mightiest among beasts
and does not turn back before any;

³¹the strutting rooster, the he-goat,
and a king whose army is with him.

³²If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,
or if you have been devising evil,
put your hand on your mouth.

³³For pressing milk produces curds,
pressing the nose produces blood,
and pressing anger produces strife.

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