¹These are the words of Agur son of Jakeh — the burden that this man declared to Ithiel: ²Surely I am the most ignorant of men, ³I have not learned wisdom, ⁴Who has ascended to heaven and come down? ⁵Every word of God is flawless; ⁶Do not add to His words, ⁷Two things I ask of You — ⁸Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. ⁹Otherwise, I may have too much ¹⁰Do not slander a servant to his master, ¹¹There is a generation of those who curse their fathers ¹²There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes ¹³There is a generation— how haughty are their eyes ¹⁴there is a generation whose teeth are swords ¹⁵The leech has two daughters: ¹⁶Sheol, ¹⁷As for the eye that mocks a father ¹⁸There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand: ¹⁹the way of an eagle in the sky, ²⁰This is the way of an adulteress: ²¹Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: ²²a servant who becomes king, ²³an unloved woman who marries, ²⁴Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise: ²⁵The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer; ²⁶the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks; ²⁷the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation; ²⁸and the lizard can be caught in one’s hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings. ²⁹There are three things that are stately in their stride, and four that are impressive in their walk: ³⁰a lion, mighty among beasts, refusing to retreat before anything; ³¹a strutting rooster; ³²If you have foolishly exalted yourself ³³For as the churning of milk yields butter,