YLT - Proverbs - 30

30:1  Words of a Gatherer, son of an obedient one, the declaration, an affirmation of the man: --I have wearied myself for God, I have wearied myself for God, and am consumed.

30:2  For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.

30:3  Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.

30:4  Who went up to heaven, and cometh down? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What is His name? and what His son's name? Surely thou knowest!

30:5  Every saying of God is tried, A shield He is to those trusting in Him.

30:6  Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.

30:7  Two things I have asked from Thee, Withhold not from me before I die.

30:8  Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,

30:9  Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, `Who is Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.

30:10  Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty.

30:11  A generation is , that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

30:12  A generation--pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

30:13  A generation--how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.

30:14  A generation--swords are their teeth, And knives--their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men.

30:15  To the leech are two daughters, `Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said `Sufficiency;'

30:16  Sheol, and a restrained womb, Earth--it is not satisfied with water, And fire--it hath not said, `Sufficiency,'

30:17  An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

30:18  Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known:

30:19  The way of the eagle in the heavens, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the heart of the sea, And the way of a man in youth.

30:20  So--the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.'

30:21  For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four--it is not able to bear:

30:22  For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,

30:23  For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.

30:24  Four are little ones of earth, And they are made wiser than the wise:

30:25  The ants are a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,

30:26  Conies are a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,

30:27  A king there is not to the locust, And it goeth out--each one shouting,

30:28  A spider with two hands taketh hold, And is in the palaces of a king.

30:29  Three there are going well, Yea, four are good in going:

30:30  An old lion--mighty among beasts, That turneth not back from the face of any,

30:31  A girt one of the loins, or a he-goat, And a king--no rising up with him.

30:32  If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil--hand to mouth!

30:33  For the churning of milk bringeth out butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth out blood, And the forcing of anger bringeth out strife!