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30The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,
²Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
³I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
⁴Who 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?
⁵Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
⁶Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
⁷Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
⁸Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
⁹Lest 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.
¹⁰Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
¹¹There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
¹²There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
¹³There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
¹⁴There 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.
¹⁵The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
¹⁶The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.