Proverbs 30

⁵ Every word of God is tested;
He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
⁶ Do not add to His words
Or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar.

⁷ Two things I asked of You,
Do not refuse me before I die:
⁸ Keep deception and ^[c]lies far from me,
Give me neither poverty nor riches;
Feed me with the food that is my portion,
⁹ That I not be full and deny You and say, “Who is the Lord?”
Or that I not be in want and steal,
And profane the name of my God.

¹⁰ Do not slander a slave to his master,
Or he will curse you and you will be found guilty.

¹¹ There is a ^[d]kind of man who curses his father
And does not bless his mother.
¹² There is a ^[e]kind who is pure in his own eyes,
Yet is not washed from his filthiness.
¹³ There is a ^[f]kind—oh how lofty are his eyes!
And his eyelids are raised in arrogance.
¹⁴ There is a ^[g]kind of man whose teeth are like swords
And his jaw teeth like knives,
To devour the afflicted from the earth
And the needy from among men.

¹⁵ The leech has two daughters,
“Give,” “Give.”
There are three things that will not be satisfied,
Four that will not say, “Enough”:
^16 [h]Sheol, and the barren womb,
Earth that is never satisfied with water,
And fire that never says, “Enough.”
¹⁷ The eye that mocks a father
And ^[i]scorns a mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young eagles will eat it.

¹⁸ There are three things which are too wonderful for me,
Four which I do not understand:
¹⁹ The way of an eagle in the sky,
The way of a serpent on a rock,
The way of a ship in the middle of the sea,
And the way of a man with a maid.
²⁰ This is the way of an adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth,
And says, “I have done no wrong.”

²¹ Under three things the earth quakes,
And under four, it cannot bear up:
²² Under a slave when he becomes king,
And a fool when he is satisfied with food,
²³ Under an unloved woman when she gets a husband,
And a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.

²⁴ Four things are small on the earth,
But they are exceedingly wise:
²⁵ The ants are not a strong people,
But they prepare their food in the summer;
²⁶ The ^[j]shephanim are not mighty people,
Yet they make their houses in the rocks;
²⁷ The locusts have no king,
Yet all of them go out in ranks;
²⁸ The lizard you may grasp with the hands,
Yet it is in kings’ palaces.

²⁹ There are three things which are stately in their march,
Even four which are stately when they walk:
³⁰ The lion which is mighty among beasts
And does not ^[k]retreat before any,
³¹ The ^[l]strutting rooster, the male goat also,
And a king when his army is with him.

³² If you have been foolish in exalting yourself
Or if you have plotted evil, put your hand on your mouth.
³³ For the ^[m]churning of milk produces butter,
And pressing the nose brings forth blood;
So the ^[n]churning of anger produces strife.