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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The words of Agur, the son of Jakeh; an oracle: This man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and to Ukal: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Surely I am more brutish than any other human being, and I do not have human understanding; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I have not learned wisdom, nor do I have knowledge of the Holy One. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Who has ascended into heaven, and then descended? Who has gathered up the winds in his fists? Who has bound up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name?--if you know! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Every word of God is purified; he is like a shield for those who take refuge in him. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Do not add to his words, lest he reprove you, and prove you to be a liar. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Two things I ask from you; do not refuse me before I die: |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Remove falsehood and lies far from me; do not give me poverty or riches, feed me with my allotted portion of bread, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9lest I become satisfied and act deceptively and say, "Who is the LORD?" Or lest I become poor and steal and demean the name of my God. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you are found guilty. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not washed from their filthiness. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The leech has two daughters: "Give! Give!" There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, "Enough"-- |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16the grave, the barren womb, land that is not satisfied with water, and fire that never says, "Enough!" |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother--the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18There are three things that are too wonderful for me, four that I do not understand: |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a woman. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, "I have not done wrong." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Under three things the earth trembles, and under four things it cannot bear up: |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who is stuffed with food, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23under an unloved woman who is married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24There are four things on earth that are small, but they are exceedingly wise: |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer; |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26rock badgers are creatures with little power, but they make their homes in the crags; |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks; |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28a lizard you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29There are three things that are magnificent in their step, four things that move about magnificently: |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30a lion, mightiest of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything; |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31a strutting rooster, a male goat, and a king with his army around him. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32If you have done foolishly by exalting yourself or if you have planned evil, put your hand over your mouth! |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33For as the churning of milk produces butter and as punching the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife. |
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