Proverbs 30:1-14 ▼

1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, [even] the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

2 Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.

3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what [is] his name, and what [is] his son's name, if thou canst tell?

5 Every word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

7 Two [things] have I required of thee; deny me [them] not before I die:

8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

9 Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain].

10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

11 [There is] a generation [that] curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

12 [There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and [yet] is not washed from their filthiness.

13 [There is] a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

14 [There is] a generation, whose teeth [are as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.