Proverbs 30:5-19

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.