Proverbs 30 — GMV

30 Verse 1 These things says the man to them that trust in God; and I cease. ^{Verse 2} For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men. ^{Verse 3} God has taught me wisdom, and I know the knowledge of the holy. ^{Verse 4} Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? who has gathered the winds in his * bosom? who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? what is his name? or what is the name of his children? ^{Verse 5} For all the words of God are tried in the fire, and he defends those that reverence him. ^{Verse 6} Add not to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be made a liar. ^{Verse 7} Two things I ask of you; take not favor from me before I die. ^{Verse 8} Remove far from me vanity and falsehood: and give me not wealth or poverty; but appoint me what is needful and sufficient: ^{Verse 9} lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? or be poor and steal, and swear vainly by the name of God. ^{Verse 10} Deliver not a servant into the hands of his master, lest he curse you, and you be utterly destroyed. ^{Verse 11} A wicked generation curse their father, and do not bless their mother. ^{Verse 12} A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way. ^{Verse 13} A wicked generation have lofty eyes, and exalt themselves with their eyelids. ^{Verse 14} A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men. ^{Verse 15} The horse-leech had three dearly beloved daughters: and these three did not satisfy her; and the fourth was not contented so as to say, Enough. ^{Verse 16} The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough. ^{Verse 17} The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it. ^{Verse 18} Moreover there are three things impossible for me to comprehend, and the fourth I know not: ^{Verse 19} the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in youth. ^{Verse 20} Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing * amiss. ^{Verse 21} By three things the earth is troubled, and the fourth it can’t bear: ^{Verse 22} if a servant reign; or a fool be filled with food; ^{Verse 23} or if a maidservant should cast out her own mistress; and if a hateful woman should marry a good man. ^{Verse 24} And there are four very little things upon the earth, but these are wiser than the wise: ^{Verse 25} the ants which are weak, and yet prepare their food in summer; ^{Verse 26} the rabbits also are a feeble race, who make their houses in the rocks. ^{Verse 27} The locusts have no king, and yet march orderly at one command. ^{Verse 28} And the eft, which supports itself by its hands, and is easily taken, dwells in the fortresses of kings. ^{Verse 29} And there are three things which go well, and a fourth which passes along finely. ^{Verse 30} A lion's whelp, stronger than all other beasts, which turns not away, nor fears any beast; ^{Verse 31} and a cock walking in boldly among the hens, and the goat leading the herd; and a king publicly speaking before a nation. ^{Verse 32} If you abandon yourself to mirth, and stretch forth your hand in a quarrel, you shall be disgraced. ^{Verse 33} Milk out milk, and there shall be butter, and if you wing one's nostrils there shall come out blood: so if you extort words, there will come forth quarrels and strifes