King James Version

Proverbs 30

Proverbs in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

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Open Proverbs 30:1

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,
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Open Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
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Open Proverbs 30:3

I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
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Translation Note
The King James asks “what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?” The 1917 Jewish Publication Society asks the same question: “What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou knowest?” Brenton’s English Septuagint has no line for this verse, so none is printed here.
The question is Agur’s. A Jewish reading can hear it as a confession that no one but God has done these things, and that the son is unnamed. Christians answer with the name of the Son. The one who ascended and descended, and who has a Son, is the God Jesus makes known. Jesus is that Son, and Jesus is God.
King James Version. Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
Jewish Publication Society (1917). “Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in his garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou knowest?”
What do Jews believe? What is the difference between Judaism and Christianity?

Open Proverbs 30:4

Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
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Open Proverbs 30:5

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
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Open Proverbs 30:6

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
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Open Proverbs 30:7

Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
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Open Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
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Open Proverbs 30:9

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
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Open Proverbs 30:10

Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
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Open Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
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Open Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
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Open Proverbs 30:13

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
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Open Proverbs 30:14

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.
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Open Proverbs 30:15

The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
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Open Proverbs 30:16

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
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Open Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
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Open Proverbs 30:18

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
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Open Proverbs 30:19

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.
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Open Proverbs 30:20

Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
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Open Proverbs 30:21

For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
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Open Proverbs 30:22

For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
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Open Proverbs 30:23

For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
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Open Proverbs 30:24

There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
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Open Proverbs 30:25

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
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Open Proverbs 30:26

The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
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Open Proverbs 30:27

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
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Open Proverbs 30:28

The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
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Open Proverbs 30:29

There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
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Open Proverbs 30:30

A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;
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Open Proverbs 30:31

A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
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Open Proverbs 30:32

If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
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Open Proverbs 30:33

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

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