Proverbs 30:4-14

⁴Who ascended or went up into heaven, and came down? Who held together the spirit or wind in his hands? who bound together waters as in a cloth? Who raised up all the ends of the earth? What is the name of him? and what is the name of his son, if thou knowest?

⁵Each word of God is a shield set afire, to all that hope in him.

⁶Add thou not anything to the words of him, and thou be reproved, and be found a liar.

⁷I prayed thee for two things; deny not thou them to me, before that I die.

⁸Make thou far from me vanity and words of leasing; give thou not to me begging and riches; but give thou only necessaries to my lifelode;

⁹lest peradventure I be full-filled, and be drawn to deny, and say, Who is the Lord? and lest I be compelled by neediness, and steal, and forswear the name of my God.

¹⁰Accuse thou not a servant to his lord, lest peradventure he curse thee, and thou fall down.

¹¹A generation that curseth his father, and that blesseth not his mother.

¹²A generation that seemeth clean to itself, and nevertheless is not washed from his filths.

¹³A generation whose eyes be high, and the eyelids thereof be raised up into high things.

¹⁴A generation that hath swords for teeth, and eateth with his cheek teeth; that it eat the needy men of the earth, and the poor-alls or the poor of men.