Proverbs 30:4-29

⁴Who hath ascended up into the heavens, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in a mantle? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest?

⁵Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

⁶Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

⁷Two things do I ask of thee; deny me them not before I die:

⁸Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:

⁹lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is Jehovah? or lest I be poor and steal, and outrage the name of my God.

¹⁰Speak not too much about a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.

¹¹There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;

¹²there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;

¹³there is a generation, — how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!

¹⁴— a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

¹⁵The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three things never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough:

¹⁶— Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.

¹⁷The eye that mocketh at a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

¹⁸There are three things too wonderful for me, and four that I know not:

¹⁹The way of an eagle in the heavens, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid.

²⁰Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

²¹Under three things the earth is disquieted, and under four it cannot bear up:

²²Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;

²³under an odious woman when she is married, and a handmaid when she is heir to her mistress.

²⁴There are four things little upon the earth, and they are exceeding wise:

²⁵The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

²⁶the rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff;

²⁷the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;

²⁸thou takest hold of the lizard with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.

²⁹There are three things which have a stately step, and four are comely in going: