¹The words of Agur the son of Jakeh. The burden which the man spoke to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal.

²Now I am more unrefined than any individual,

And I do not have a man's erudition,

³And I have not learned wisdom,

But I do have knowledge of holy things.

⁴Who has ascended to heaven and descended?

Who gathers the wind in his cupped hands?

Who has bound up the waters in a garment?

Who established all the ends of the earth?

What is his name,

And what is his son's name,

If you know?

⁵Every saying of God has been refined;

It is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Lest he reprove you,

And you are proved false.

⁷I have asked two things from you;

Do not withhold them from me

Before I die.

⁸Keep falsity and lying words away from me,

Do not give me poverty or riches;

Feed me on the food appointed for me,

⁹Lest I should become excessively provided for,

And disavow, and say,

“Who is the Lord?”

And lest I should become impoverished and steal,

And use the name of my God irreverently.

¹⁰Do not speak slanderously of a servant to his master,

Lest he should curse you,

And you incur guilt.

¹¹A generation curses their father

And does not bless their mother.

¹²A generation is pure in its own eyes,

But it is not washed clean of its excrement.

¹³How a generation's eyes are haughty

And its eyelids lifted up!

¹⁴– A generation whose teeth are swords

And whose incisors are knives

For devouring the poor of the land

And the needy among mankind.

¹⁵A leech had two daughters,

Who said, “Give, give.”

When there were three of them,

They were not satisfied,

And when they were four, they did not say,

“That is plenty.”

¹⁶They are the grave,

A closed womb,

Land not satisfied with water,

And a fire which does not say,

“That is plenty.”

¹⁷As for an eye which mocks his father

And scorns obedience to his mother,

The ravens of the brook will peck at it,

And the young of the eagle will consume it.

¹⁸There are three things too wonderful for me,

And four which I do not comprehend:

¹⁹The way of the eagle in the sky,

The way of the serpent on a rock,

The way of a ship in the middle of the sea

And the way of a man with a maiden.

²⁰Such is the way of an adulterous woman;

She eats and wipes her mouth,

And says,

“I haven't done anything wrong.”

²¹At three things the earth is agitated,

And four it is not able to bear:

²²A servant who reigns,

And a fool when he has had his fill of food,

²³A detestable woman if she marries,

And a maidservant who dispossesses her mistress.

²⁴There are four creatures

Which are small on the earth,

But they are wise,

Most wise:

²⁵The ants are not a strong people,

But in summer they make provision for their food;

²⁶The rock hyraxes which are not a powerful people,

But they make their home in a rock;

²⁷The locust which does not have a king,

Yet they go out in a pincer movement;

²⁸The lizard which holds on with its arms

And is found in royal palaces.

²⁹There are three creatures

Which are good in their motion,

And four which are good in their movement:

³⁰The lion is mighty among animals

– It does not back away from anything;

³¹The zebra girded around the loins,

And the he-goat,

And the king against whom there is no insurrection.

³²If you have acted foolishly in exalting yourself,

Or if you have been devious,

Put your hand to your mouth.

³³For the churning of milk produces butter,

But the churning of wrath produces bloodshed,

And the churning of anger produces contention.

Reference(s) in Chapter 30: v.6 ↔ Revelation 22:18.