The Book of Proverbs
Proverbs, Chapter 30
The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the burden: The man spoke to Ithiel, even to Ithiel and Ucal, [saying],
Surely I [am more] brutish than anyone, and I do not have the understanding of a man.
I have not learned wisdom, but I do know the knowledge of holiness.
Who has gone up [to] Heaven, and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in [His] garments? Who has made all the ends of the earth to rise? What [is] His name, and what [is] His Son's name? Surely you know.
Every word of God [is] tested, He [is] a shield to those who seek refuge in Him.
Do not add to His words, that He not reprove you, and you be found a liar.
I have asked two [things] from You: Do not hold back from me before I die,
Remove vanity and a lying word far from me, do not give me poverty or riches; tear for me my portion of bread,
that I not become full and deceive, and say, Who [is] Jehovah? Or that I not become poor and steal, and violate the name of my God.
Do not slander a servant to his master, that he not curse you, and you be found guilty.
A generation curses its father, and does not bless its mother,
a generation pure in its own eyes, and yet not washed from its own filth.
[There is] a generation, Oh how lofty are its eyes! And its eyelids [are] lifted up,
a generation whose teeth are like swords, and its jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from [among] men.
The leech [has] two daughters [crying], Give! Give! Three things are not satisfied, four never have said, Enough!
Sheol, and the barren womb, the earth not filled [with] water, and the fire, [these] never said, Enough!
The eye [that] mocks [its] father, and despises to obey [its] mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the sons of the eagle shall eat it.
Three [things are] too wonderful for me; yea, I do not know the way of four:
The way of an eagle in the heavens, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with a virgin.
So [is] the way of an adulterous woman: She eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no evil.
The earth quakes under three [things]; yea, it is not able to bear up under four:
under a servant when he reigns, and a fool when he is filled with food,
[under] a hated one when she is married, [under] a slave-girl when she is heir to her mistress.
Four [things are] little on the earth, but they [are] the wise ones of those made wise:
The ants [are] a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in summer;
rock badgers [are] not a powerful people, yet they make their houses in the rock;
the locusts have no king, yet they go out in a swarm, all of them;
the lizard you can take with the hands, yet it [is] in king's palaces.
There [are] three [things] that go well in a march; yea, four that go well in walking:
a lion [is] mighty among beasts, and he does not turn away from facing all;
one girded in loins, and a he goat, and a king [when his] army [is] with him.
If you have been foolish in lifting yourself up, or if you have thought evil, [lay your] hand on your mouth!
Surely, the squeezing of milk brings curds, and the squeezing of the nose brings blood; so the squeezing of wrath brings out strife.
