WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.220 Chapter 30 The Words of Agur the Son of Jacob, Even the Prophecy The man spake 00:06.220 --> 00:08.540 unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Eucl. 00:09.580 --> 00:13.660 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. 00:14.240 --> 00:16.900 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. 00:18.020 --> 00:20.280 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? 00:20.980 --> 00:22.900 Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? 00:23.540 --> 00:25.460 Who hath bound the waters in a garment? 00:26.160 --> 00:28.800 Who hath established all the ends of the earth? 00:29.360 --> 00:30.440 What is his name? 00:30.660 --> 00:33.100 And what is his son's name, if thou canst tell? 00:34.460 --> 00:36.720 Every word of God is pure. 00:37.480 --> 00:40.240 He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. 00:41.480 --> 00:45.300 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. 00:46.320 --> 00:47.820 Two things have I required of thee. 00:48.280 --> 00:49.940 Deny me them not before I die. 00:51.100 --> 00:53.160 Remove far from me vanity and lies. 00:53.840 --> 00:55.820 Give me neither poverty nor riches. 00:56.540 --> 01:01.400 Feed me with food convenient for me, lest I be full and deny thee, and say, 01:01.500 --> 01:02.240 Who is the Lord? 01:02.620 --> 01:06.820 Or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. 01:08.220 --> 01:12.520 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found 01:12.520 --> 01:12.840 guilty. 01:13.880 --> 01:18.060 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. 01:18.600 --> 01:23.360 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from 01:23.360 --> 01:24.060 their filthiness. 01:24.060 --> 01:29.400 There is a generation, oh, how lofty are their eyes, and their eyelids are lifted 01:29.400 --> 01:29.700 up. 01:30.400 --> 01:35.220 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw-teeth as knives, 01:35.440 --> 01:39.160 to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men. 01:40.580 --> 01:44.240 The horse-leech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. 01:45.280 --> 01:47.760 There are three things that are never satisfied. 01:48.360 --> 01:50.520 Yea, four things say not it is enough. 01:51.160 --> 01:55.520 The grave, and the barren womb, the earth that is not filled with water, 01:55.840 --> 01:58.260 and the fire that sayeth not it is enough. 01:59.800 --> 02:03.240 The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, 02:03.740 --> 02:07.580 the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. 02:08.720 --> 02:12.780 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know 02:12.780 --> 02:13.160 not. 02:13.700 --> 02:17.560 The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, 02:18.120 --> 02:22.500 the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid. 02:23.600 --> 02:25.420 Such is the way of an adulterous woman. 02:26.120 --> 02:30.000 She eateth and wipeth her mouth, and sayeth, I have done no wickedness. 02:30.820 --> 02:35.220 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear. 02:35.920 --> 02:40.060 For a servant when he reigneth, and a fool when he is filled with meat. 02:40.600 --> 02:45.220 For an odious woman when she is married, and an handmaid that is heir to her 02:45.220 --> 02:45.620 mistress. 02:46.720 --> 02:50.760 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise. 02:51.560 --> 02:55.420 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer. 02:56.440 --> 03:00.900 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks. 03:01.760 --> 03:06.340 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands. 03:07.280 --> 03:10.960 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces. 03:12.060 --> 03:15.980 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely and going. 03:16.580 --> 03:20.260 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any. 03:20.840 --> 03:26.720 A greyhound, and he goat also, and a king against whom there is no rising 03:26.720 --> 03:27.040 up. 03:27.860 --> 03:32.780 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, 03:33.220 --> 03:34.920 lay thine hand upon thy mouth. 03:35.480 --> 03:39.360 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the ringing of the nose 03:39.360 --> 03:43.560 bringeth forth blood, so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.