Proverbs 30:4-20

⁴But let me say this: No one RHQ has ascended to heaven to find out what God is like and returned to tell us. No one RHQ has gathered/held the wind in his hand. No one RHQ has wrapped the water in the ocean in a piece of cloth, and no one RHQ has established the boundaries of the earth. If you know who has done those things, tell me RHQ his name, and the names of his children SAR! But you do not know who has done those things, so you cannot speak with authority about what God is like.

⁵Everything that God has said is true; he is like a shield MET for all those who request him to protect them.

⁶Do not add to (OR, change) what God has said; if you do that, he will rebuke you and show that you are lying.

⁷God, I ask you to do two things for me; please do them before I die:

⁸Help me never to lie or deceive people and do not cause me to become poor or to become rich. Just give me the food that I need;

⁹because if I become rich, I might say that I do not RHQ know you and that I do not need you; and if I become poor, I might dishonor you by stealing things.

¹⁰Do not ◄slander/say bad things about► a worker to his boss; if you do that, the worker will curse you, and cause you to have trouble.

¹¹I will list four kinds of evil things that people do: Some people curse their fathers and do not ask God to bless their mothers.

¹²Some people think that they are perfect, but really they have never been cleansed from their guilt for committing disgusting sins.

¹³Some people are very proud; they think that they are very good and they despise others.

¹⁴Some people act very cruelly toward others; it is as though MET they have teeth that are like sharp knives; they severely oppress poor people and try to cause them to disappear from the land.

¹⁵Leeches are always wanting more blood to suck; similarly, greedy people are always saying “Give me some!” or “Give me more!” MET There are four things that are never ◄satisfied/content with what they have►; they always want more LIT:

¹⁶The place where the dead people are; women who do not have any children; ground that needs water/rain; and a fire that always needs more wood.

¹⁷Those who SYN make fun of their fathers or refuse to obey their mothers (OR, despise their aged mothers) should die and have their eyes pecked out by crows, and the rest of their corpses should be fed to the vultures.

¹⁸There are four things that are wonderful to me, but I do not understand any of them:

¹⁹How eagles fly in the sky, how snakes are able to move/crawl across a big rock, how ships sail on the seas, and how a man falls in love with a woman.

²⁰This is what a woman who ◄is not faithful to/does not have sex only with► her husband does: She commits adultery EUP, and then bathes and says, “I have not done anything that is wrong!”