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1 The words of Agur, son of Jakeh: the lifting up: the declaration of the man to Ithiel; to Ithiel and Ucal: 2 For I am brutish more than man, and not the understanding of a man to me. 3 I learnt not wisdom, and I shall not know the knowledge of the holy. 4 Who went up to the heavens, and came down? who gathered the wind in his fists? who bound the waters in a garment? who set up all the ends of the earth? what his name and what his son's name, if thou shalt know? 5 All the word of God is purified: he a shield to those trusting in him. 6 Thou shalt not add to his words lest he reprove in thee, and thou wert false. 7 Two things I asked from thee, thou wilt not withhold from me before I shall die: 8 Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance: 9 Lest I shall be filled and I spake lies, and said, Who is Jehovah? and lest I shall be dispossessed and I stole, and I laid hold upon the name of God. 10 Thou shalt not slander the servant to his lord lest he shall curse thee, and thou wert guilty. 11 A generation will curse its father, and will not bless its mother. 12 A generation pure in its eyes, and not washed from its finding. 13 A generation, how its eyes were raised up and its eyelashes will be lifted up. 14 A generation, its teeth swords, and its biter's teeth, knives, to devour the poor from the land, and the needy from man. 15 To the leech two daughters: Give, give. Behold, three shall not satisfied; four shall not say, Wealth: 16 Hades; and the closed womb; the earth not filled with water; and fire said not, Wealth. Proverbs 30:1-16, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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