1The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle.[1] The man declares, I am weary, O God; I am weary, O God, and worn out.[2]2Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man. (Ps 49,10)3I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One. (Przyp 9,10)4Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up 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? Surely you know! (Job 26,8; Job 38,4; Ps 22,27; Ps 104,3; Iz 40,12; Jan 3,13; Ap 19,12)5Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. (Ps 3,3; Ps 12,6; Ps 18,30)6Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar. (Pwt 4,2; Pwt 12,32; Ap 22,18)7Two things I ask of you; deny them not to me before I die: (Rdz 45,28)8Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, (Job 23,12; Mt 6,11; Łk 11,3)9lest 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. (Wj 5,2; Wj 20,7; Pwt 8,12; Pwt 31,20; Pwt 32,15; Joz 24,27; Neh 9,25; Job 21,14; Przyp 30,22)10Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty. (Ps 15,3; Ps 101,5; Kazn 7,21)11There are those[3] who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers. (Wj 21,17; Przyp 20,20; Przyp 30,17)12There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth. (Przyp 16,2; Łk 18,11; Ap 3,17)13There are those—how lofty are their eyes, how high their eyelids lift! (Ps 101,5)14There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind. (Job 29,17; Ps 14,4; Ps 57,4)15The leech has two daughters: Give and Give.[4] Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough”: (Przyp 6,16; Przyp 30,18; Przyp 30,21; Przyp 30,29)16Sheol, the barren womb, the land never satisfied with water, and the fire that never says, “Enough.” (Rdz 30,1; Przyp 27,20)17The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures. (Rdz 9,22; Lb 16,14; Przyp 23,22; Przyp 30,11; Jer 16,4)18Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: (Job 42,3; Przyp 30,15)19the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.20This 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: (Przyp 30,15; Jl 2,10; Am 8,8)22a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food; (Przyp 19,10; Przyp 30,9)23an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress. (Pwt 21,15; Iz 54,1; Iz 62,4)24Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise: (Przyp 30,15)25the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer; (Przyp 6,6)26the rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs; (Kpł 11,5; Ps 104,18)27the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank; (Przyp 6,7; Jl 2,7; Jl 2,25)28the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.29Three things are stately in their tread; four are stately in their stride: (Przyp 6,16; Przyp 30,15; Przyp 30,18; Przyp 30,21)30the lion, which is mightiest among beasts and does not turn back before any; (Job 39,22)31the strutting rooster,[5] the he-goat, and a king whose army is with him.[6] (Job 40,16)32If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth. (Job 21,5; Mi 7,16)33For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.