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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 both 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 not learned how to become wise,
nor do I know much about Yahweh, the Holy One.
4 But I will say this: Surely nobody has ever gone to heaven and returned to earth!
Surely nobody has ever controlled the wind!
Surely nobody has ever gathered the water for rain in the clouds!
Surely nobody has ever formed the boundaries of the earth!
You do not know the name of any such person, or the name of his son.
Therefore, you also do not know much!
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 God, I ask you to do two things;
please do them for me before I die:
8 Please prevent me from being dishonest or speaking what is not true.
Please do not let me become too poor or too rich,
but just provide the proper amount of food for me.
9 because if I become rich, I might say that I do not know you and that I do not need you;
and if I become poor,
I might dishonor you by stealing things.
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 disrespect their parents.
12 Some people think that they are sinless,
but they have committed disgusting sins, like people who have covered themselves with excrement.
13 Some people are very proud!
They think that they are better than other people. 14 Some people are very cruel toward others;
they harshly oppress and destroy poor people
as fierce animals attack and eat other animals.
15 Greedy people are like the offspring of leeches
because they always want other people to give them more.
There are three, even four things that always want more:
16 the place where dead people are,
childless women,
soil that never receives enough water,
and fire that keeps consuming more.
17 People who ridicule their fathers,
and refuse to obey their mothers
deserve to die
and have wild animals eat their dead bodies.
18 There are three, even four things, that are too amazing for me to comprehend:
19 how a bird flies in the air,
how a snake slithers over a rock,
how a ship sails in the middle of the ocean,
and how a young man loves a young woman.
20 Acting adulterously is as easy for adulterous women as
eating and wiping their mouths.
Afterward, they claim that they have not sinned at all.
21 There are three, even four, things that the people in the world cannot tolerate:
22 what slaves do who become rulers,
what worthless people do when they have plenty of food to eat,
23 what women whom people hate do when they marry someone,
and what servant girls do who replace the wives of their masters.
24 There are four creatures in the world that are small
but extremely wise:
25 Although ants are not strong,
they store up their food during the summer so that they have it to eat during the winter.
26 Although hyraxes are also not strong,
they are able to make their homes high up in the rocks on cliffs.
27 Although locusts do not have a king,
they move in orderly groups like soldiers in an army.
28 Although anyone can easily catch lizards in his hands,
they can freely enter into kings’ palaces.
29 There are three, even 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 just as churning milk produces butter,
and squeezing a nose produces blood,
making people angry causes them to fight.
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