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Proverbs 30 📜 📕 ↷
Words of Agur
1 THE words of the Gatherer the son of Vomiter. The vision, that the man spake, with whom God is, and who being strengthened by God abiding with him, said:📜💬📚
2 I am most foolish of men, & the wisdom of men is not with me.📜💬📚
3 I have not learned wisdom, and have not known the science of saints.📜💬📚
4 Who hath ascended into heaven and descended? Who hath contained the spirit in his hands? Who hath bound the waters together as in a garment? Who hath raised up all the borders of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son, if thou know?📜💬📚
5 Every word of God tried by fire, is a buckler to them that hope in him:📜💬📚
6 Add not any thing to his words, and so thou be reproved and found a liar.📜💬📚
7 Two things I have asked thee, deny them not to me before I die.📜💬📚
8 Vanity, and lying words make far from me. Beggary, and riches give me not: give only things necessary for my sustenance:📜💬📚
9 lest perhaps being filled I be allured to deny, and may say: Who is the Lord? Or being compelled by poverty I may steal, and forswear the name of my God.📜💬📚
10 Accuse not a servant to his master, lest perhaps he curse thee, and thou fall.📜💬📚
11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and that blesseth not their mother.📜💬📚
12 A generation, that seemeth to it-self clean, & yet is not washed from their filthiness.📜💬📚
13 A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and the eye-lids thereof set up on high.📜💬📚
14 A generation, that for teeth hath swords, and chaweth with their grinding teeth, that they may eat the needy out of the earth, and the poor from among men.📜💬📚
15 The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. Three things are unsatiable, the fourth never saith it sufficeth.📜💬📚
16 Hell, and the mouth of the matrice, & the earth which is not satisfied with water: but the fire never saith it sufficeth.📜💬📚
17 The eye that scorneth his father, & that despiseth the travail of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the torrents pick it out, and the young of the eagle eat it.📜💬📚
18 Three things are hard to me, and of the fourth I am utterly ignorant.📜💬📚
19 The way of an eagle in the air, 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 in youth.📜💬📚
20 Such is also the way of an adulterous woman, which eateth, and wiping her mouth saith: I have done no evil.📜💬📚
21 By three things the earth is moved, and the fourth it cannot sustain.📜💬📚
22 By a servant when he shall reign: by a fool when he shall be filled with meat:📜💬📚
23 by an odious woman when she shall be taken in matrimony: & by a bond-woman when she shall be heir to her mistress.📜💬📚
24 There are four the least things of the earth, and they are wiser than the wise.📜💬📚
25 The ants, a weak people, which prepareth in the harvest meat for themselves:📜💬📚
26 The leveret, a people not strong, which placeth his bed in the rock:📜💬📚
27 The locust hath no king, and they go out all by their troops:📜💬📚
28 The stellion stayeth on his hands, & tarrieth in king's houses.📜💬📚
29 There are three things which go well, and the fourth that goeth happily.📜💬📚
30 The lion, the strongest of beasts shall fear at the meeting of none:📜💬📚
31 the cock girded about the loins, and the ram: also the king, against whom none can resist.📜💬📚
32 There is that hath appeared a fool after that he was lifted up on high: for if he had understood, he would have laid his hand upon his mouth.📜💬📚
33 And he that strongly presseth the paps to wring out milk, straineth out butter, and he that violently cleanseth his nose, wringeth out blood: & he that provoketh angers, bringeth forth discords.📜💬📚
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