Wise sayings from Agur

30 These are sayings/messages that God gave to Agur, the son of Jakeh.

Agur wrote them for Ithiel and Ucal.

2 It seems that I am very stupid;

I do not deserve to be considered to be a human;

I do not have the good sense that humans should have.

3 I have not learned how to become wise

and I do not know much about God.

4 But let me say this:

No one [RHQ] has ascended to heaven to find out what God is like and returned to tell us.

No one [RHQ] has gathered/held the wind in his hand.

No one [RHQ] has wrapped the water in the ocean in a piece of cloth,

and no one [RHQ] has established the boundaries of the earth.

If you know who has done those things, tell me [RHQ] his name, and the names of his children [SAR]!

But you do not know who has done those things, so you cannot speak with authority about what God is like.

5 Everything that God has said is true;

he is like a shield [MET] for all those who request him to protect them.

6 Do not add to (OR, change) what God has said;

if you do that, he will rebuke you and show that you are lying.

7 God, I ask you to do two things for me;

please do them before I die:

8 Help me never to lie or deceive people

and do not cause me to become poor or to become rich.

Just give me the food that I need;

9 because if I become rich,

I might say that I do not [RHQ] know you and that I do not need you;

and if I become poor,

I might dishonor you by stealing things.