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30:1  The words of Agur, son of Yaqay, who received the prophecy and was visited by power and he said to Ithliel:
30:2  Because my thoughts are deficient and I do not have the understanding of the children of men,
30:3  And I have not known wisdom neither have I learned the knowledge of The Holy Ones,
30:4  He said to me: “Who went up to Heaven and came down, and who is holding the wind in his palms? Who has bound the waters in a napkin and who has established all the ends of the Earth? What is his Name, and what is his Son's Name, if you know?”
30:5  “All the words of God are chosen and he helps those that trust upon him.”
30:6  “Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you, and you be proven a liar.”
30:7  I have requested two things of you; do not deny me them before I die.
30:8  Take emptiness and lying speech far from me, and do not give me poverty or wealth. Give me a living sufficient for me.
30:9  Lest I be full and I lie and say, “Who is Lord Jehovah?”, or lest I become poor and I steal and swear in the name of my God.
30:10  Do not hand over a Servant to his Master, lest he curse you and you be condemned
30:11  To a generation that its fathers will revile and its mother will not bless;
30:12  A generation that is pure in its own eyes and is not washed from its own filthiness;
30:13  A generation -how haughty are its eyes and its eyelids raised!
30:14  A generation whose swords are its teeth, and daggers its molars, to consume the poor of earth and the afflicted of men.
30:15  Three leeches have three beloved daughters that are not full, and a fourth does not say, “It is enough”:
30:16  Sheol and her barren womb, the ground that is not filled with water, and fire does not say, “It is enough.”
30:17  Ravens of the valley will tear out the eye that laughs at its father and despises the old age of its mother, and the young Eagles will eat it.
30:18  Three things are hidden from me, and a fourth I have not known exists:
30:19  The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of the snake upon a rock, the way of the ship in the heart of the sea and the way of a man in his youth.
30:20  So is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats and she wipes her mouth and she says, “I have done nothing.”
30:21  The Earth quakes under three things, and under four, it cannot endure:
30:22  Under a Servant when he will reign, and under a fool when he is filled with bread,
30:23  And under a hateful woman that is married to a man, and under a Maidservant that dismisses her mistress.
30:24  Four things are small in the Earth, and they are wiser than the wise:
30:25  Ants that have no power in them and from the harvest they prepare their bread,
30:26  And the rabbits that are lacking in power and make themselves houses in the rocks,
30:27  And locusts that have no King over them and they all assemble together,
30:28  And the lizard that clings with its hands and dwells in Kings' houses.
30:29  There are three that are right in their walking and the fourth is beautiful walking:
30:30  The whelp of a lion is champion of all beasts, neither is he afraid nor does he turn from any beast,
30:31  And a rooster that struts among hens, and the he-goat that goes at the head of the flock, and the King that speaks among the peoples.
30:32  Do not covet, lest you be despised, and do not stretch your hand to your mouth in depravity.
30:33  From the fat of the milk butter comes forth, but if you squeeze your hand upon wheat, blood will come forth, so from contention among people judgment goes forth.