1. The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; the prophecy uttered by the man unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal:
2. Truly I am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence.
3. I have neither learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy.
4. Who hath ascended up into the heavens, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in a mantle? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest?
5. Every word of +God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
7. Two things do I ask of thee; deny me them not before I die:
8. Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:
9. lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is Jehovah? or lest I be poor and steal, and outrage the name of my God
10. Speak not too much about a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.
11. There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;
12. there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;
13. there is a generation, --how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!
14. --a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
15. The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three things never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough: