Proverbs:30

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* These things says the man to them that trust in God ; and I cease . * For I am the most simple of all men , and there is not in me the wisdom of men . * God has taught me wisdom , and I know the knowledge of the holy . * Who has gone up to heaven , and come down ? who has gathered the winds in his (note :)Or , fold of his robe (:note ) bosom ? who has wrapped up the waters in a garment ? who has dominion of all the ends of the earth ? what is his name ? or what is the name of his children ? * For all the words of God are tried in the fire , and he defends those that reverence him . * Add not unto his words , lest he reprove thee , and thou be made a liar . * Two things I ask of thee ; take not favour from me before I die . * Remove far from me vanity and falsehood : and give me not wealth or poverty ; but appoint me what is needful and sufficient : * lest I be filled and become false , and say , Who sees me ? or be poor and steal , and swear vainly by the name of God . * Deliver not a servant into the hands of his master , lest he curse thee , and thou be utterly destroyed . * A wicked generation curse their father , and do not bless their mother . * A wicked generation judge themselves to be just , but do not cleanse their way . * A wicked generation have lofty eyes , and exalt themselves with their eyelids . * A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw-teeth as knives , so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth , and the poor of them from among men . * The horse-leech had three dearly-beloved daughters : and these three did not satisfy her ; and the fourth was not contented so as to say , Enough . * The grave , and the love of a woman , and the earth not filled with water ; water also and fire will not say , It is enough . * The eye that laughs to scorn a father , and dishonours the old age of a mother , let the ravens of the valleys pick it out , and let the young eagles devour it . * Moreover there are three things impossible for me to comprehend , and the fourth I know not : * the track of a flying eagle ; and the ways of a serpent on a rock ; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea ; and the ways of a man in youth . * Such is the way of an adulterous woman , who having washed herself from what she has done , says she has done nothing (note :)Gr . out of place (:note ) amiss . * By three thing the earth is troubled , and the fourth it cannot bear : * if a servant reign ; or a fool be filled with food ; * or if a maid-servant should cast out her own mistress ; and if a hateful woman should marry a good man . * And there are four very little things upon the earth , but these are wiser than the wise : * the ants which are weak , and yet prepare their food in summer ; * the rabbits also are a feeble race , who make their houses in the rocks . * The locusts have no king , and yet march orderly at one command . * And the eft , which supports itself by its hands , and is easily taken , dwells in the fortresses of kings . * And there are three things which go well , and a fourth which passes along finely . * A lion ’s whelp , stronger than all other beasts , which turns not away , nor fears any beast ; * and a cock walking in boldly among the hens , and the goat leading the herd ; and a king publicly speaking before a nation . * If thou abandon thyself to mirth , and stretch forth thine hand in a quarrel , thou shalt be disgraced . * Milk out milk , and there shall be butter , and if thou wing one ’s nostrils there shall come out blood : so if thou extort words , there will come forth quarrels and strifes .

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