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Proverbs 30 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:2 - For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:3 - Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:5 - Every saying of God is tried, A shield He is to those trusting in Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:6 - Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:7 - Two things I have asked from Thee, Withhold not from me before I die.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:10 - Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:11 - A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:12 - A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:13 - A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:15 - To the leech are two daughters, 'Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said 'Sufficiency;'
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:16 - Sheol, and a restrained womb, Earth -- it is not satisfied with water, And fire -- it hath not said, 'Sufficiency,'
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:18 - Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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.'
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:21 - For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four -- it is not able to bear:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:22 - For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:23 - For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:24 - Four are little ones of earth, And they are made wiser than the wise:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:25 - The ants are a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:26 - Conies are a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:27 - A king there is not to the locust, And it goeth out -- each one shouting,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:28 - A spider with two hands taketh hold, And is in the palaces of a king.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:29 - Three there are going well, Yea, four are good in going:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:30 - An old lion -- mighty among beasts, That turneth not back from the face of any,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:31 - A girt one of the loins, or a he-goat, And a king -- no rising up with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:32 - If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 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!
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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