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30:1  The words of Agur son of Jakeh. An oracle. Thus says the man: I am weary, O God; I am weary, O God, and am wasting away.
30:2  Surely I am too stupid to be human; I do not have human understanding.
30:3  I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the holy ones.
30:4  Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of the hand? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is the person’s name? And what is the name of the person’s child? Surely you know!
30:5  Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
30:6  Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you, and you be found a liar.
30:7  Two things I ask of you; do not deny them to me before I die:
30:8  Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that I need,
30:9  lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
30:10  Do not slander a servant to a master, lest the servant curse you, and you be held guilty.
30:11  There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
30:12  There are those who are pure in their own eyes, yet are not cleansed of their filthiness.
30:13  There are those—how lofty are their eyes, how high their eyelids lift!—
30:14  there are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.
30:15  The leech has two daughters; “Give, give,” they cry. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough”:
30:16  Sheol, the barren womb, the earth ever-thirsty for water, and the fire that never says, “Enough.”
30:17  The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
30:18  Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand:
30:19  the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a woman.
30:20  This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”
30:21  Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up:
30:22  a slave when he becomes king and a fool when glutted with food,
30:23  a contemptible woman when she gets a husband and a maid when she supplants her mistress.
30:24  Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:
30:25  the ants are a people without strength, yet they provide their food in the summer;
30:26  the badgers are a people without power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;
30:27  the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank;
30:28  the lizard can be grasped in the hand, yet it is found in kings’ palaces.
30:29  Three things are stately in their stride; four are stately in their gait:
30:30  the lion, which is mightiest among wild animals and does not turn back before any;
30:31  the strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king against whom none can stand.
30:32  If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.
30:33  For as pressing milk produces curds and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing anger produces strife.