Proverbs 30
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Proverbs 30
Sayings of Agur
1 #
Prov 31.1
The words of Agur son of Jakeh. An oracle.
Thus says the man: I am weary, O God;
I am weary, O God, and am wasting away.#30.1 Meaning of Heb uncertain
2 #
Ps 73.22
Surely I am too stupid to be human;
I do not have human understanding.
3 #
Prov 9.10
I have not learned wisdom,
nor have I knowledge of the holy ones.#30.3 Or Holy One
4 #
Job 38.8, 9; Ps 104.3; Isa 40.12; 45.18; Jn 3.13 Who has ascended to heaven and come down?
Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of the hand?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is the person’s name?
And what is the name of the person’s child?
Surely you know!
5 #
Ps 12.6; 18.30; 84.11 Every word of God proves true;
he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
6 #
Deut 4.2; 12.32; Rev 22.18 Do not add to his words,
lest he rebuke you, and you be found a liar.
7Two things I ask of you;
do not deny them to me before I die:
8 #
Mt 6.11
Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that I need,
9 #
Deut 8.12; Neh 9.25; Job 31.24; Hos 13.6 lest I be full and deny you
and say, “Who is the Lord?”
or I be poor and steal
and profane the name of my God.
10 #
Eccl 7.21
Do not slander a servant to a master,
lest the servant curse you, and you be held guilty.
11 #
Prov 20.20
There are those who curse their fathers
and do not bless their mothers.
12 #
Lk 18.11
There are those who are pure in their own eyes,
yet are not cleansed of their filthiness.
13 #
Ps 131.1; Prov 6.17 There are those—how lofty are their eyes,
how high their eyelids lift!—
14 #
Job 29.17; Ps 14.4; 52.2; Am 8.4 there are those whose teeth are swords,
whose teeth are knives
to devour the poor from off the earth,
the needy from among mortals.
15The leech has two daughters;
“Give, give,” they cry.
Three things are never satisfied;
four never say, “Enough”:
16 #
Prov 27.20
Sheol, the barren womb,
the earth ever-thirsty for water,
and the fire that never says, “Enough.”
17 #
Gen 9.22; Deut 28.26; Prov 23.22 The eye that mocks a father
and scorns to obey a mother
will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley
and eaten by the vultures.
18Three things are too wonderful for me;
four I do not understand:
19the way of an eagle in the sky,
the way of a snake on a rock,
the way of a ship on the high seas,
and the way of a man with a woman.
20 #
Prov 5.6
This is the way of an adulteress:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I have done no wrong.”
21Under three things the earth trembles;
under four it cannot bear up:
22 #
Prov 19.10
a slave when he becomes king
and a fool when glutted with food,
23a contemptible woman when she gets a husband
and a maid when she supplants her mistress.
24Four things on earth are small,
yet they are exceedingly wise:
25 #
Prov 6.6–8
the ants are a people without strength,
yet they provide their food in the summer;
26 #
Ps 104.18
the badgers are a people without power,
yet they make their homes in the rocks;
27the locusts have no king,
yet all of them march in rank;
28the lizard#30.28 Or spider can be grasped in the hand,
yet it is found in kings’ palaces.
29Three things are stately in their stride;
four are stately in their gait:
30 #
Judg 14.18; Mic 5.8 the lion, which is mightiest among wild animals
and does not turn back before any;
31the strutting rooster,#30.31 Gk Syr Tg Compare Vg: Meaning of Heb uncertain the he-goat,
and a king against whom none can stand.
32 #
Job 21.5; 40.4; Mic 7.16 If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,
or if you have been devising evil,
put your hand on your mouth.
33 #
Prov 10.12; 29.22 For as pressing milk produces curds
and pressing the nose produces blood,
so pressing anger produces strife.
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