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title: Proverbs 30
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createdAt: 2024-08-21T04:02:58.704Z
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**1 **The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, *even* the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

**2 **Surely I *am* more brutish than *any* man, and have not the understanding of a man.

**3 **I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

**4 **Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what *is* his name, and what *is* his son's name, if thou canst tell?

**5 **Every word of God *is* pure: he *is* a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

**6 **Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

**7 **Two *things* have I required of thee; deny me *them* not before I die:

**8 **Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

**9 **Lest I be full, and deny *thee*, and say, Who *is* the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God *in vain*.

**10 **Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

**11 ***There is* a generation *that* curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

**12 ***There is* a generation *that are* pure in their own eyes, and *yet* is not washed from their filthiness.

**13 ***There is* a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

**14 ***There is* a generation, whose teeth *are as* swords, and their jaw teeth *as* knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from *among* men.

**15 **The horseleach hath two daughters, *crying*, Give, give. There are three *things that* are never satisfied, *yea*, four *things* say not, *It is* enough:

**16 **The grave; and the barren womb; the earth *that* is not filled with water; and the fire *that* saith not, *It is* enough.

**17 **The eye *that* mocketh at *his* father, and despiseth to obey *his* mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

**18 **There be three *things which* are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

**19 **The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

**20 **Such *is* the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

**21 **For three *things* the earth is disquieted, and for four *which* it cannot bear:

**22 **For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

**23 **For an odious *woman* when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

**24 **There be four *things which are* little upon the earth, but they *are* exceeding wise:

**25 **The ants *are* a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

**26 **The conies *are but* a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

**27 **The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

**28 **The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

**29 **There be three *things* which go well, yea, four are comely in going:

**30 **A lion *which is* strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;

**31 **A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom *there is* no rising up.

**32 **If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, *lay* thine hand upon thy mouth.

**33 **Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.