< Proverbs 30 >
1 word Agur son: child Jakeh [the] burden utterance [the] great man to/for `God` to/for `God` and `worn out`
Words of Agur, son of Jakeh, the burden, a declaration of the man to Ithiel—to Ithiel and Ucal: I have wearied myself [for] God, I have wearied myself [for] God, and am consumed.
2 for stupid I from man: anyone and not understanding man to/for me
For I am more brutish than anyone, And do not have the understanding of a man.
3 and not to learn: learn wisdom and knowledge holy to know
Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet I know the knowledge of the Holy Ones.
4 who? to ascend: rise heaven and to go down who? to gather spirit: breath in/on/with palm his who? to constrain water in/on/with mantle who? to arise: establish all end land: country/planet what? name his and what? name son: child his for to know
Who went up to the heavens, and comes down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What [is] His Name? And what [is] His Son’s Name? Surely you know!
5 all word god to refine shield he/she/it to/for to seek refuge in/on/with him
Every saying of God [is] tried, He [is] a shield to those trusting in Him.
6 not to add upon word his lest to rebuke in/on/with you and to lie
Do not add to His words, lest He reason with you, And you have been found false.
7 two to ask from with you not to withhold from me in/on/with before to die
Two things I have asked from You, Do not withhold from me before I die.
8 vanity: false and word: because lie to remove from me poverty and riches not to give: give to/for me to tear me food statute: portion my
Put vanity and a lying word far from me, Do not give poverty or wealth to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,
9 lest to satisfy and to deceive and to say who? LORD and lest to possess: poor and to steal and to capture name God my
Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, “Who [is] YHWH?” And lest I am poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the Name of my God.
10 not to slander servant/slave to(wards) (lord his *Q(K)*) lest to lighten you and be guilty
Do not accuse a servant to his lord, Lest he disapprove of you, and you are found guilty.
11 generation father his to lighten and [obj] mother his not to bless
A generation lightly esteems their father, And does not bless their mother.
12 generation pure in/on/with eye his and from filth his not to wash: wash
A generation—pure in their own eyes, But not washed from their own filth.
13 generation what? to exalt eye his and eyelid his to lift: look
A generation—how high are their eyes, Indeed, their eyelids are lifted up.
14 generation sword tooth his and knife jaw his to/for to eat afflicted from land: country/planet and needy from man
A generation—their teeth [are] swords, And their jaw-teeth [are] knives, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from [among] men.
15 to/for leech two daughter to give to give three they(fem.) not to satisfy four not to say substance
To the leech [are] two daughters—Give! Give! Behold, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said “Sufficiency”;
16 hell: Sheol and coercion womb land: country/planet not to satisfy water and fire not to say substance (Sheol )
Sheol, and a restrained womb, Earth—it [is] not satisfied [with] water, And fire—it has not said, “Sufficiency,” (Sheol )
17 eye to mock to/for father and to despise to/for obedience mother to dig her raven torrent: valley and to eat her son: young animal eagle
An eye that mocks at a father, And despises to obey a mother, Ravens of the valley dig it out, And young eagles eat it.
18 three they(masc.) to wonder from me (and four *Q(k)*) not to know them
Three things have been too wonderful for me, Indeed, four that I have not known:
19 way: journey [the] eagle in/on/with heaven way: journey serpent upon rock way: journey fleet in/on/with heart sea and way: journey great man in/on/with maiden
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.
20 so way: conduct woman to commit adultery to eat and to wipe lip her and to say not to work evil: wickedness
So—the way of an adulterous woman, She has eaten and has wiped her mouth, And has said, “I have not done iniquity.”
21 underneath: under three to tremble land: country/planet and underneath: under four not be able to lift: bear
For three things has earth been troubled, And for four—it is not able to bear:
22 underneath: instead servant/slave for to reign and foolish for to satisfy food
For a servant when he reigns, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,
23 underneath: instead to hate for rule: to marry and maidservant for to possess: take lady her
For a hated one when she rules, And a maidservant when she succeeds her mistress.
24 four they(masc.) small land: country/planet and they(masc.) wise be wise
Four [are] little ones of earth, And they are made wiser than the wise:
25 [the] ant people not strong and to establish: prepare in/on/with summer food their
The ants [are] a people not strong, And they prepare their food in summer,
26 rock badger people not mighty and to set: make in/on/with crag house: home their
hyraxes [are] a people not strong, And they place their house in a rock,
27 king nothing to/for locust and to come out: come to divide all his
There is no king to the locust, And it goes out—each one shouting,
28 lizard in/on/with hand to capture and he/she/it in/on/with temple: palace king
A spider with two hands takes hold, And is in the palaces of a king.
29 three they(masc.) be good step and four be good to go: walk
There are three going well, Indeed, four are good in going:
30 lion mighty man in/on/with animal and not to return: return from face: before all
An old lion—mighty among beasts, That does not turn back from the face of any,
31 greyhound loin or male goat and king army with him
A girt one of the loins, Also a male goat, And a king—troops with him.
32 if be senseless in/on/with to lift: exalt and if to plan hand to/for lip
If you have been foolish in lifting yourself up, And if you have devised evil—hand to mouth!
33 for pressing milk to come out: produce curd and pressing face: nose to come out: produce blood and pressing face: anger to come out: produce strife
For the churning of milk brings out butter, And the wringing of the nose brings out blood, And the forcing of anger brings out strife!