Proverbs:30

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* 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 .

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