1) The words of Agur, son of Iakeev. Inspirational sayings that this man said to Ithiel, Ithiel and Ukal:
2) truly, I am more ignorant than any other person, and I do not have human reason,
3) neither have I learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the saints.
4) Who ascended to heaven and descended? who gathered the wind into his fistfuls? who put water in his clothes? who set all the boundaries of the earth? what is his name? and what is the name of his son? do you know?
5) Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who trust in Him.
6) Do not add to His words, lest He reprove you and you turn out to be a liar.
7) I ask you two things, do not refuse me, before I die:
8) remove vanity and lies from me, do not give me poverty and wealth, feed me with my daily bread,
9) Lest I, being full, deny You and say, “Who is the Lord?” and so that, having become poor, I will not steal and take the name of my God in vain.
10) Do not curse a slave before his master, lest he curse you and you remain guilty.
11) There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.
12) There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, but is not washed from its uncleanness.
13) There is a race - oh, how arrogant are its eyes, and how raised are its eyelashes!
14) There is a race whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, to devour the poor of the earth and the beggars among men.
15) Insatiability has two daughters: “come on, come on!” Here are three who are insatiable, and four who will not say: “Enough!”
16) The underworld and the barren womb, the earth that is not filled with water, and the fire that does not say: “Enough!”
17) The eye that mocks the father and neglects obedience to the mother will be pecked out by the ravens and eagle chicks will be devoured!
18) Three things are incomprehensible to me, and four I do not understand:
19) the path of an eagle in the sky, the path of a serpent on a rock, the path of a ship in the middle of the sea and the path of a man to a maiden.
20) This is the way of an adulterous wife; she ate and wiped her mouth, and said: “I haven’t done anything bad.”
21) The earth shakes from three, but it cannot bear four:
22) a slave when he becomes king; a fool when he eats his fill of bread;
23) a shameful woman when she marries, and a servant when she takes the place of her mistress.
24) Here are four little ones on earth, but they are wiser than the wise:
25) ants are not a strong people, but they prepare their food in the summer;
26) mountain mice are a weak people, but they build their houses on the rock;
27) The locusts do not have a king, but they all act harmoniously;
28) the spider clings with its paws, but is in the royal palaces.
29) Here are three who walk gracefully, and four who walk gracefully:
30) the lion, the strongman among animals, will not step aside in front of anyone;
31) a horse and a goat, [the leader of the herd,] and a king among his people.
32) If in your arrogance you have done something stupid and thought evil, then put your hand on your mouth;
33) because, just as churning milk produces butter, and pushing the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces quarrel.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru