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\v 1 These are sayings containing wisdom, the sayings of Agur son of Jakeh.
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\q1 Agur wrote them for Ithiel, yes, to Ithiel and to Ucal.
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\q1
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\v 2 I am more like an animal than any human being!
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\q2 I lack the understanding that a human being has!
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\q1
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\v 3 I have not learned about wisdom;
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\q2 I do not know Yahweh, the Holy One.
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\q1
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\v 4 Who has ever gone up to heaven and come back down again?
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\q2 Who can catch the wind in his hand?
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\q2 Who can gather up the waters in an overcoat?
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\q2 Who set the limits to the size of the earth?
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\q2 What is his name? And what is the name of his son?
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\q2 Do you know?
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\q1
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\v 5 Every word of God is proven by a test that it is true;
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\q2 he is like a shield that protects those who run to him.
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\q1
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\v 6 Be careful not to add to Yahweh's words more than he has said;
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\q2 if you do that, he will correct you and he will prove that you lied about what he said.
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\v 7 I ask Yahweh for two things,
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\q2 and that he give them to me before I die.
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\q1
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\v 8 Put vain pride and lies far away from me;
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\q2 and let me neither have poverty or riches,
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\q2 just give me the food I need every day.
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\v 9 For if I have too much money,
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\q2 it is possible that I will deny my God and say, "Who is Yahweh?"
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\q2 Or it is possible that I will become so poor that I steal from others
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\q2 and bring disgrace on the name of my God.
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\v 10 Do not speak badly about a slave when he is standing before his master;
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\q2 if you do, he will curse you, and you will be responsible; you brought it on yourself.
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\v 11 There are many people who curse their fathers
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\q2 and they do not praise their mothers or thank them;
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\v 12 those people think everything they do should not be criticized,
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\q2 but really they have never been cleansed from their filth.
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\v 13 These people show how proud they are in their eyes;
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\q2 they make people look at them and they show their pride in their faces!
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\v 14 These people use their mouths to speak the most hurtful words, like they are cutting and tearing people apart;
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\q1 it is as if they are eating up the poor people from the earth,
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\q2 and swallowing up the needy from humanity.
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\v 15 There are leeches that suck blood, imagine they had two daughters;
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\q2 they say, "Give to us! Give to us!
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\q1 There are four things that are never satisfied—
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\q2 they always want more :
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\v 16 The grave, the place of the dead;
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\q1 the womb of a woman that never conceived a child;
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\q1 soil that badly needs to be watered;
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\q1 and a fire that burns hot and it never says, "The fire is hot enough!"
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\q1
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\v 17 The one who dishonors his father,
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\q2 and who disrespects and disobeys his mother.
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\q1 such a person would be killed and have his eyes pecked out by crows,
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\q2 and would be devoured by the vultures.
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\q1
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\v 18 There are three wonderful things I can mention;
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\q2 no, there are four that are too amazing and I cannot understand them.
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\q1
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\v 19 How eagles fly in the sky;
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\q1 how snakes move over a big rock,
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\q1 how ships can sail on the seas,
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\q1 and how a man is able to win the love of a woman.
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\v 20 This is what a woman is like who is not faithful to her husband:
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\q2 she eats and then wipes her mouth,
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\q2 and she says, "There is nothing wrong in what I have done."
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\v 21 There are four things that make the earth tremble:
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\v 22 the earth trembles with a slave becomes a king;
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\q1 the earth trembles when fool has eaten his food and is filled;
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\v 23 the earth trembles when a woman who is hated by all, gets married,
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\q1 and the earth trembles, when the maid becomes the wife of her master.
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\v 24 There are four creatures on the earth that are small, but they are very wise.
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\v 25 Ants are not strong,
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\q2 but they store up food during the summer in order to have it during the winter.
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\v 26 Rock badgers also are not strong,
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\q2 but they make their homes among the rocks.
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\v 27 Locusts do not have a king,
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\q2 but they march in rank like soldiers in the army.
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\v 28 Lizards are very small and you can hold them in your hand,
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\q2 but they get inside kings' palaces.
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\v 29 There are four animals that walk with great pride and they are very impressive as they walk.
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\v 30 Lions, which are the strongest among wild animals
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\q2 and are not afraid of any of them.
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\v 31 Strutting roosters, and male goats,
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\q1 and kings who stand with their soldiers beside them.
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\v 32 If you have acted foolishly, exalting yourself,
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\q2 or if you been planning to do something evil,
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\q1 put your hand over your mouth! Stop it!
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\v 33 Just as when you churn milk, and it produces butter,
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\q2 even so, if you hit someone hard on his nose, the result is that his nose will bleed;
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\q2 and, in the same way, when people are angry, they will argue and fight.
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