Proverbs 30:1-9 ▼

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.