Proverbs 30 - New Messianic Version Bible

¹ The words of Agur [Gathered] the son of Yakeh [Blameless], [even] the prophecy: the man spoke unto Iti’el [God is with me], even unto Iti’el [God is with me] and Ukhal [Devoured],

² Surely I [am] more “stupid as a beast” than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.

³ I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

⁴ Who has ascended up 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 youi can tell?

⁵ Every word of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

⁶ Add youi not unto his words, lest he reprove youi, and youi be found a liar.

⁷ Two [things] have I required of youi; deny me [them] not before I die:

⁸ Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient (fit; appropriate; proper (one’s own; peculiar; particular)) for me:

⁹ Lest I be full, and deny [youi], and say, Who [is] the Lord-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate]? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [in vain].

¹⁰ Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse youi, and youi be found guilty.

¹¹ [There is] a generation [that] curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

¹² [There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and [yet] is not washed from their filthiness.

¹³ [There is] a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

¹⁴ [There is] a generation, whose teeth [are as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.

¹⁵ The horseleach has two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough:

¹⁶ The grave; and the barren womb; the earth [that] is not filled with water; and the fire [that] says not, [It is] enough.

¹⁷ The eye [that] mocks at [his] father, and despises to obey [his] mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

¹⁸ There be three [things which] are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

¹⁹ The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

²⁰ Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness.

²¹ For three [things] the earth is disquieted, and for four [which] it cannot bear:

²² For a servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

²³ For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

²⁴ There be four [things which are] little upon the earth, but they [are] exceeding wise:

²⁵ The ants [are] a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

²⁶ The conies [are but] a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

²⁷ The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

²⁸ The spider takes hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.

²⁹ There be three [things] which go well, yea, four are comely (attractive; proper (one’s own; peculiar; particular); becoming) in going:

³⁰ A lion [which is] strongest among beasts, and turns not away for any;

³¹ A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom [there is] no rising up.

³² If youi have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if youi have thought evil, [lay] youi hand upon youi mouth.

³³ Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood: so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.