New King James Version (Tinasha LaRaye)

New King James Version (Simon Bubb)

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            <div class="label">30</div><div class="s"><span class="heading">The Wisdom of Agur</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, </span><span class="it"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> utterance. This man declared to Ithiel&#8212;to Ithiel and Ucal:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 73:22; Prov. 12:1</span></span><span class="content">Surely I </span><span class="it"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> more stupid than </span><span class="it"><span class="content">any</span></span><span class="content"> man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.30.2"><span class="content">And do not have the understanding of a man.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I neither learned wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.30.3"><span class="content">Nor have </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">(Prov. 9:10)</span></span><span class="content">knowledge of the Holy One.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">(Ps. 68:18; John 3:13)</span></span><span class="content">Who has ascended into heaven, or descended?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.30.4"><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Job 38:4; Ps. 104:3; Is. 40:12</span></span><span class="content">Who has gathered the wind in His fists?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.30.4"><span class="content">Who has bound the waters in a garment?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.30.4"><span class="content">Who has established all the ends of the earth?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.30.4"><span class="content">What </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> His name, and what </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> His Son&#8217;s name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.30.4"><span class="content">If you know?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 12:6; 19:8; 119:140</span></span><span class="content">Every word of God </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> pure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.30.5"><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 18:30; 84:11; 115:9&#8211;11</span></span><span class="content">He </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a shield to those who put their trust in Him.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Deut. 4:2; 12:32; Rev. 22:18</span></span><span class="content">Do not add to His words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.30.6"><span class="content">Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Two </span><span class="it"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content"> I request of You</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.30.7"><span class="content">(Deprive me not before I die):</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Remove falsehood and lies far from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.30.8"><span class="content">Give me neither poverty nor riches&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.30.8"><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Job 23:12; Matt. 6:11; (Phil. 4:19)</span></span><span class="content">Feed me with the food allotted to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Deut. 8:12&#8211;14; Neh. 9:25, 26; Hos. 13:6</span></span><span class="content">Lest I be full and deny </span><span class="it"><span class="content">You,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.30.9"><span class="content">And say, &#8220;Who </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.30.9"><span class="content">Or lest I be poor and steal,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.30.9"><span class="content">And profane the name of my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do not malign a servant to his master,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.30.10"><span class="content">Lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="it"><span class="content">There</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a generation </span><span class="it"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> curses its </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ex. 21:17; Prov. 20:20</span></span><span class="content">father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.30.11"><span class="content">And does not bless its mother.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="it"><span class="content">There</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a generation </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">(Prov. 16:2); Is. 65:5; Luke 18:11; (Titus 1:15, 16)</span></span><span class="it"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> pure in its own eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.30.12"><span class="it"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> is not washed from its filthiness.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="it"><span class="content">There</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a generation&#8212;oh, how </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 131:1; Prov. 6:17; Is. 2:11; 5:15</span></span><span class="content">lofty are their eyes!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.30.13"><span class="content">And their eyelids are lifted up.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Job 29:17; Ps. 52:2</span></span><span class="it"><span class="content">There</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a generation whose teeth </span><span class="it"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">like</span></span><span class="content"> swords,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.30.14"><span class="content">And whose fangs </span><span class="it"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">like</span></span><span class="content"> knives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.30.14"><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 14:4; Amos 8:4</span></span><span class="content">To devour the poor from off the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.30.14"><span class="content">And the needy from </span><span class="it"><span class="content">among</span></span><span class="content"> men.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The leech has two daughters&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.30.15"><span class="content">Give </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> Give!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.30.15"><span class="content">There are three </span><span class="it"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> are never satisfied,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.30.15"><span class="content">Four never say, &#8220;Enough!&#8221;:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Prov. 27:20; Hab. 2:5</span></span><span class="content">The grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.30.16"><span class="content">The barren womb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.30.16"><span class="content">The earth </span><span class="it"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> is not satisfied with water&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.30.16"><span class="content">And the fire never says, &#8220;Enough!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Gen. 9:22; Lev. 20:9; Prov. 20:20</span></span><span class="content">The eye </span><span class="it"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> mocks </span><span class="it"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.30.17"><span class="content">And scorns obedience to </span><span class="it"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> mother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.30.17"><span class="content">The ravens of the valley will pick it out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.30.17"><span class="content">And the young eagles will eat it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">There are three </span><span class="it"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> are too wonderful for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.30.18"><span class="content">Yes, four </span><span class="it"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> I do not understand:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The way of an eagle in the air,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.30.19"><span class="content">The way of a serpent on a rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.30.19"><span class="content">The way of a ship in the midst of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.30.19"><span class="content">And the way of a man with a virgin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">This </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the way of an adulterous woman:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.30.20"><span class="content">She eats and wipes her mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.30.20"><span class="content">And says, &#8220;I have done no wickedness.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For three </span><span class="it"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content"> the earth is perturbed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.30.21"><span class="content">Yes, for four it cannot bear up:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Prov. 19:10; Eccl. 10:7</span></span><span class="content">For a servant when he reigns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.30.22"><span class="content">A fool when he is filled with food,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">A hateful </span><span class="it"><span class="content">woman</span></span><span class="content"> when she is married,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.30.23"><span class="content">And a maidservant who succeeds her mistress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">There are four </span><span class="it"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> are little on the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.30.24"><span class="content">But they </span><span class="it"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> exceedingly wise:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Prov. 6:6</span></span><span class="content">The ants </span><span class="it"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> a people not strong,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.30.25"><span class="content">Yet they prepare their food in the summer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Lev. 11:5; Ps. 104:18</span></span><span class="content">The rock badgers are a feeble folk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.30.26"><span class="content">Yet they make their homes in the crags;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The locusts have no king,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.30.27"><span class="content">Yet they all advance in ranks;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The spider skillfully grasps with its hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.30.28"><span class="content">And it is in kings&#8217; palaces.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">There are three </span><span class="it"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> are majestic in pace,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.30.29"><span class="content">Yes, four </span><span class="it"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> are stately in walk:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">A lion, </span><span class="it"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> mighty among beasts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.30.30"><span class="content">And does not turn away from any;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">A greyhound,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.30.31"><span class="content">A male goat also,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.30.31"><span class="content">And a king </span><span class="it"><span class="content">whose</span></span><span class="content"> troops </span><span class="it"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> with him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.30.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">If you have been foolish in exalting yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.30.32"><span class="content">Or if you have devised evil, </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Job 21:5; 40:4; Mic. 7:16</span></span><span class="it"><span class="content">put</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">your</span></span><span class="content"> hand on </span><span class="it"><span class="content">your</span></span><span class="content"> mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.30.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">For </span><span class="it"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> the churning of milk produces butter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.30.33"><span class="content">And wringing the nose produces blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.30.33"><span class="content">So the forcing of wrath produces strife.</span></span></div>
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The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, his utterance. This man declared to Ithiel—to Ithiel and Ucal:
Surely I am more stupid than any man,
And do not have the understanding of a man.
I neither learned wisdom
Nor have knowledge of the Holy One.
Who has ascended into heaven, or descended?
Who has gathered the wind in His fists?
Who has bound the waters in a garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is His name, and what is His Son’s name,
If you know?
Every word of God is pure;
He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.
Do not add to His words,
Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.
Two things I request of You
(Deprive me not before I die):
Remove falsehood and lies far from me;
Give me neither poverty nor riches—
Feed me with the food allotted to me;
Lest I be full and deny You,
And say, “Who is the LORD?”
Or lest I be poor and steal,
And profane the name of my God.
Do not malign a servant to his master,
Lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.
There is a generation that curses its father,
And does not bless its mother.
There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.
There is a generation—oh, how lofty are their eyes!
And their eyelids are lifted up.
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords,
And whose fangs are like knives,
To devour the poor from off the earth,
And the needy from among men.
The leech has two daughters—
Give and Give!
There are three things that are never satisfied,
Four never say, “Enough!”:
The grave,
The barren womb,
The earth that is not satisfied with water—
And the fire never says, “Enough!”
The eye that mocks his father,
And scorns obedience to his mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young eagles will eat it.
There are three things which are too wonderful for me,
Yes, four which I do not understand:
The way of an eagle in the air,
The way of a serpent on a rock,
The way of a ship in the midst of the sea,
And the way of a man with a virgin.
This is the way of an adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth,
And says, “I have done no wickedness.”
For three things the earth is perturbed,
Yes, for four it cannot bear up:
For a servant when he reigns,
A fool when he is filled with food,
A hateful woman when she is married,
And a maidservant who succeeds her mistress.
There are four things which are little on the earth,
But they are exceedingly wise:
The ants are a people not strong,
Yet they prepare their food in the summer;
The rock badgers are a feeble folk,
Yet they make their homes in the crags;
The locusts have no king,
Yet they all advance in ranks;
The spider skillfully grasps with its hands,
And it is in kings’ palaces.
There are three things which are majestic in pace,
Yes, four which are stately in walk:
A lion, which is mighty among beasts
And does not turn away from any;
A greyhound,
A male goat also,
And a king whose troops are with him.
If you have been foolish in exalting yourself,
Or if you have devised evil, put your hand on your mouth.
For as the churning of milk produces butter,
And wringing the nose produces blood,
So the forcing of wrath produces strife.

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