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30The words of Agur son of Jakeh. An oracle.

Thus says the man: I am weary, O God,
I am weary, O God. How can I prevail?
²Surely I am too stupid to be human;
I do not have human understanding.
³I have not learned wisdom,
nor have I knowledge of the holy ones.
⁴Who has ascended to heaven and come down?
Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of the hand?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is the person’s name?
And what is the name of the person’s child?
Surely you know! ²⁴Four things on earth are small,
yet they are exceedingly wise:
²⁵the ants are a people without strength,
yet they provide their food in the summer;
²⁶the badgers are a people without power,
yet they make their homes in the rocks;
²⁷the locusts have no king,
yet all of them march in rank;
²⁸the lizard can be grasped in the hand,
yet it is found in kings’ palaces. ²⁹Three things are stately in their stride;
four are stately in their gait:
³⁰the lion, which is mightiest among wild animals
and does not turn back before any;
³¹the strutting rooster, the he-goat,
and a king striding before his people. ³²If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,
or if you have been devising evil,
put your hand on your mouth.
³³For as pressing milk produces curds,
and pressing the nose produces blood,
so pressing anger produces strife.