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The pronouncement.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.30.1.1">a</a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.1.1">a</a></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock">The man’s oration to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal:<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.30.1.2">B</a></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="3"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-2.htm">2</a>I am more stupid than any other person,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.30.2.1">A</a>and I lack a human’s ability to understand.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.2.1">a</a> <A name="4"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-3.htm">3</a>I have not gained wisdom,and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.3.1">a</a> <A name="5"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-4.htm">4</a>Who has gone up to heaven and come down?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.4.1">a</a>Who has gathered the wind in his hands?Who has bound up the waters in a cloak?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.4.2">b</a>Who has established all the ends of the earth?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.4.3">c</a>What is his name,and what is the name of his son —if you know?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.4.4">d</a> <A name="6"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-5.htm">5</a>Every word of God is pure;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.30.5.1">a</a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.5.1">a</a>he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.5.2">b</a> <A name="7"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-6.htm">6</a>Don’t add to his words,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.6.1">a</a>or he will rebuke you, and you will be proved a liar.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.6.2">b</a></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="8"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-7.htm">7</a>Two things I ask of you;don’t deny them to me before I die: <A name="9"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-8.htm">8</a>Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me.Give me neither poverty nor wealth;feed me with the food I need.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.8.1">a</a> <A name="10"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-9.htm">9</a>Otherwise, I might have too much<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.9.1">a</a>and deny you,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.9.2">b</a> saying, “Who is the Lord? ”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.9.3">c</a>or I might have nothing and steal,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.9.4">d</a>profaning<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.30.9.1">A</a> the name of my God.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.9.5">e</a></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="11"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-10.htm">10</a>Don’t slander a servant to his masteror he will curse you,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.10.1">a</a> and you will become guilty.</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="12"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-11.htm">11</a>There is a generation that curses its fatherand does not bless its mother.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.11.1">a</a> <A name="13"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-12.htm">12</a>There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.12.1">a</a>yet is not washed from its filth. <A name="14"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-13.htm">13</a>There is a generation — how haughty its eyesand pretentious its looks.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.30.13.1">A</a> <A name="15"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-14.htm">14</a>There is a generation whose teeth are swords,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.14.1">a</a>whose fangs are knives,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.14.2">b</a>devouring the oppressed from the land<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.14.3">c</a>and the needy from among mankind.</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="16"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-15.htm">15</a>The leech has two daughters: “Give, Give! ”Three things<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.15.1">a</a> are never satisfied;four never say, “Enough! ”: <A name="17"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-16.htm">16</a>Sheol;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.16.1">a</a> a childless womb;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.16.2">b</a>earth, which is never satisfied with water;and fire, which never says, “Enough! ”</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="18"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-17.htm">17</a>As for the eye that ridicules a father<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.17.1">a</a>and despises obedience to a mother,may ravens of the valley pluck it outand young vultures eat it.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.17.2">b</a></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="19"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-18.htm">18</a>Three things are too wondrous for me;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.18.1">a</a>four I can’t understand: <A name="20"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-19.htm">19</a>the way of an eagle in the sky,the way of a snake on a rock,the way of a ship at sea,and the way of a man with a young woman.</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="21"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-20.htm">20</a>This is the way of an adulteress:she eats and wipes her mouthand says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.20.1">a</a></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="22"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-21.htm">21</a>The earth trembles under three things;it cannot bear up under four: <A name="23"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-22.htm">22</a>a servant when he becomes king,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.22.1">a</a>a fool when he is stuffed with food, <A name="24"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-23.htm">23</a>an unloved woman when she marries,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.23.1">a</a>and a servant girl when she ousts her queen.</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="25"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-24.htm">24</a>Four things on earth are small,yet they are extremely wise: <A name="26"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-25.htm">25</a>ants are not a strong people,yet they store up their food in the summer;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.25.1">a</a> <A name="27"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-26.htm">26</a>hyraxes are not a mighty people,yet they make their homes in the cliffs;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.26.1">a</a> <A name="28"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-27.htm">27</a>locusts have no king,yet all of them march in ranks;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.27.1">a</a> <A name="29"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-28.htm">28</a>a lizard<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.30.28.1">A</a> can be caught in your hands,yet it lives in kings’ palaces.</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="30"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-29.htm">29</a>Three things are stately in their stride;four are stately in their walk: <A name="31"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-30.htm">30</a>a lion, which is mightiest among beastsand doesn’t retreat before anything; <A name="32"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-31.htm">31</a>a strutting rooster;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.30.31.1">A</a> a goat;and a king at the head of his army.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Proverbs.30.31.2">B</a></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="33"></a><a href="/proverbs/30-32.htm">32</a>If you have been foolish by exalting yourselfor if you’ve been scheming,put your hand over your mouth.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.32.1">a</a> <a href="/proverbs/30-33.htm">33</a>For the churning of milk produces butter,and twisting a nose draws blood,and stirring up anger produces strife.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Proverbs.30.33.1">a</a></blockquote> <section id="footnotes-Proverbs.30" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Proverbs.30.1.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.1">30:1</a> Or son of Jakeh from Massa ; Pr 31:1</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.30.1.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.1">30:1</a> Hb uncertain. Sometimes read with different word division as oration: I am weary, God, I am weary, God, and I am exhausted, or oration: I am not God, I am not God, that I should prevail. LXX reads My son, fear my words and when you have received them repent. The man says these things to the believers in God, and I pause.</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.30.2.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.2">30:2</a> Lit I am more stupid than a man</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.30.5.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.5">30:5</a> Lit refined</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.30.9.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.9">30:9</a> Lit grabbing</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.30.13.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.13">30:13</a> Lit and its eyelids lifted up</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.30.28.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.28">30:28</a> Or spider</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.30.31.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.31">30:31</a> Or a greyhound</aside><aside id="fn.Proverbs.30.31.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.31">30:31</a> LXX reads king addressing his people</aside> <section id="cross-references-Proverbs.30" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.1.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.1">30:1</a> Nm 24:3; Pr 31:1; Nah 1:1; Hab 1:1; Zch 9:1; Mal 1:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.2.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.2">30:2</a> 1Kg 3:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.3.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.3">30:3</a> Pr 9:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.4.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.4">30:4</a> Jn 3:13; Eph 4:9–10</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.4.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.4">30:4</a> Jb 26:8; 38:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.4.3"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.4">30:4</a> Jb 38:4–5; Ps 93:1; 119:90; Is 45:18</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.4.4"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.4">30:4</a> Mt 11:27; Rv 19:12–13</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.5.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.5">30:5</a> Ps 12:6; 18:30</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.5.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.5">30:5</a> Ps 3:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.6.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.6">30:6</a> Dt 4:2; 12:32; Rv 22:18</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.6.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.6">30:6</a> Dt 18:22</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.8.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.8">30:8</a> Jb 23:12; Mt 6:11; Php 4:11–12</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.9.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.9">30:9</a> Dt 6:10–12; 8:11–14</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.9.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.9">30:9</a> Jos 24:27; Jb 31:28</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.9.3"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.9">30:9</a> Ex 5:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.9.4"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.9">30:9</a> Ex 20:5; Eph 4:28</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.9.5"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.9">30:9</a> Lv 19:11–12</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.10.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.10">30:10</a> Ec 7:21</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.11.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.11">30:11</a> Ex 21:17; Pr 20:20</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.12.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.12">30:12</a> Pr 16:2; Lk 18:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.14.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.14">30:14</a> Ps 57:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.14.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.14">30:14</a> Jb 29:17</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.14.3"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.14">30:14</a> Ps 14:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.15.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.15">30:15</a> Pr 6:16; 30:18,21,29</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.16.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.16">30:16</a> Pr 27:20; Hab 2:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.16.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.16">30:16</a> Gn 30:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.17.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.17">30:17</a> Gn 9:22</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.17.2"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.17">30:17</a> Dt 28:26</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.18.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.18">30:18</a> Jb 42:3; Ps 131; 139:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.20.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.20">30:20</a> Pr 28:24; 1Jn 1:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.22.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.22">30:22</a> Pr 19:10; Ec 10:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.23.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.23">30:23</a> Gn 29:30–31; Dt 21:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.25.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.25">30:25</a> Pr 6:6–8</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.26.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.26">30:26</a> Lv 11:5; Ps 104:18</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.27.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.27">30:27</a> Jl 2:7–8</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.32.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.32">30:32</a> Jb 21:5; Mc 7:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Proverbs.30.33.1"><a href="#start-Proverbs.30.33">30:33</a> Pr 10:12; 29:22</aside> <section id="study-notes-Proverbs.30" class="snSection"> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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