4. Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? who hath held the wind in his hands? who hath bound up the waters together as in a garment? who hath raised up all the borders of the earth? what is his name, and what is the name of his son, if thou knowest?
5. Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him.
6. Add not any thing to his words, lest thou be reproved, and found a liar:
7. Two things I have asked of thee, deny them not to me before I die.
8. Remove far from me vanity, and lying words. Give me neither beggary, nor riches: give me only the necessaries of life:
9. Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and forswear the name of my God.
10. Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou fall.
11. There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
12. A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
13. A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up on high.
14. A generation, that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the poor from among men.
15. The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. There are three things that never are satisfied, and the fourth never saith: It is enough.
16. Hell, and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which is not satisfied with water: and the fire never saith: It is enough.
17. The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.
18. Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly ignorant of.
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 in youth.
20. Such is also the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.
21. By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear: