Proverbs 30:1-18

¹Words of a Gatherer, son of an obedient one, the declaration, an affirmation of the man: — I have wearied myself for God, I have wearied myself for God, and am consumed.

²For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.

³Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.

⁴Who went up to heaven, and cometh down? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What is His name? and what His son's name? Surely thou knowest!

⁵Every saying of God is tried, A shield He is to those trusting in Him.

⁶Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.

⁷Two things I have asked from Thee, Withhold not from me before I die.

⁸Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,

⁹Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, 'Who is Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.

¹⁰Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty.

¹¹A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

¹²A generation — pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

¹³A generation — how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.

¹⁴A generation — swords are their teeth, And knives — their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men.

¹⁵To the leech are two daughters, 'Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said 'Sufficiency;'

¹⁶Sheol, and a restrained womb, Earth — it is not satisfied with water, And fire — it hath not said, 'Sufficiency,'

¹⁷An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

¹⁸Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known: