Proverbs 30:1-16 ▼

1 Words of Agur, son of Jakeh, the burden, a declaration of the man to Ithiel—to Ithiel and Ucal: I have wearied myself [for] God, || I have wearied myself [for] God, and am consumed.

2 For I am more brutish than anyone, || And do not have the understanding of a man.

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

4 Who went up to the heavens, and comes down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What [is] His Name? And what [is] His Son’s Name? Surely you know!

5 Every saying of God [is] tried, || He [is] a shield to those trusting in Him.

6 Do not add to His words, lest He reason with you, || And you have been found false.

7 Two things I have asked from You, || Do not withhold from me before I die.

8 Put vanity and a lying word far from me, || Do not give poverty or wealth to me, || Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,

9 Lest I become satiated, and have denied, || And have said, “Who [is] YHWH?” And lest I am poor, and have stolen, || And have laid hold of the Name of my God.

10 Do not accuse a servant to his lord, || Lest he disapprove of you, and you are found guilty.

11 A generation lightly esteems their father, || And does not bless their mother.

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

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

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

15 To the leech [are] two daughters—Give! Give! Behold, three things are not satisfied, || Four have not said “Sufficiency”;

16 Sheol, and a restrained womb, || Earth—it [is] not satisfied [with] water, || And fire—it has not said, “Sufficiency,”