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30 These are the sayings of Agur son of Jakeh, which Yahweh told him to say.
These are what Agur declared to Ithiel, even to Ithiel and Ucal.
2 I am certainly less intelligent than other people.
Indeed, I do not understand as much as everyone else understands!
3 I have never learned about what is wise,
nor do I know about Yahweh, the Holy One.
4 Certainly, no person has ever gone to heaven and returned to earth!
Certainly, no person has ever controlled the wind!
Certainly, no person has ever gathered the water for rain in the clouds!
Certainly, no person has ever formed the boundaries of the earth!
If such a person exists, then what is his name? And what is the name of his son?
Certainly, you do not know about such a person!
5 Everything that God says is true;
he is like a shield that protects people who trust him to protect them.
6 Never claim that God has said something other than what he has actually said.
If you do that, then he will correct you and he will prove that you lied about what he said.
7 I ask Yahweh for two things,
and ask that he give them to me before I die:
8 I ask that he prevent me from being dishonest or speaking what is not true.
I also ask that he not let me become too poor or too rich,
but just provide the proper amount of food for me. 9 If I become too rich, then I may reject Yahweh and claim that I do not know him.
Or if I become too poor, then I may rob other people,
so that I dishonor my God.
10 Never say bad things about servants to the people whom they serve.
If you do, then they will curse you, and people will hold you responsible for what you said.
11 Some people frequently curse their parents.
12 Some people think they are sinless,
but they are actually guilty like people who have not cleaned off their filth.
13 Some people are so extremely arrogant!
14 Some people harshly oppress poor people as if they were animals who remove poor people from the world
by eating them up with very sharp teeth.
15 Greedy people always want more, they are like animals that suck blood and have two daughters.
The names of both of them are Give Me Some!
There are three, no, four things that always want more:
16 the place where dead people are,
childless women,
soil that never receives enough water,
and fire, which always needs something to burn.
17 People who ridicule their fathers,
and refuse to obey their mothers
will die and wild birds will pluck out their eyes,
and young scavenging birds will eat them.
18 There are three, no, four things that are too amazing for me to comprehend:
19 how birds fly in the air,
how snakes slither over rocks,
how ships sail in the middle of the ocean,
and how young men act lovingly with young women.
20 Acting adulterously is as easy for adulterous women as
eating, wiping their mouths,
and claiming that they have not sinned at all.
21 There are three, no, four things that the people in the world cannot tolerate:
22 when slaves become rulers,
when fools have plenty of food to eat,
23 when women whom people hate marry someone,
and when maids replace the wives of their masters.
24 There are four creatures in the world that are small
but extremely wise:
25 Although ants are weak insects,
during the right time they store their food to eat during the winter.
26 Although hyraxes are weak animals,
they make their homes among the rocks on cliffs.
27 Although locusts do not have a king,
they move in groups like soldiers in an army.
28 Although lizards are small enough to hold in your hands,
you can find them inside kings’ palaces.
29 There are three, no, four things that look very impressive when they walk:
30 lions, which are the most powerful animals
and never flee from anything,
31 strutting male birds, male goats,
and kings whom people are afraid to rebel against.
32 If you have acted foolishly by bragging about yourself,
or if you were plotting to do what is evil,
then stop doing so immediately!
33 Stop doing so because doing so will cause bad things to happen, just as churning milking turns it into butter,
squeezing a nose will make it bleed,
and making people angry causes them to fight.
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