Proverbs 30:8-17
English Standard Version
8 Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that is (A)needful for me,
9 lest I be (B)full and (C)deny you
and say, (D)“Who is the Lord?”
or lest I be poor and steal
(E)and profane the name of my God.
11 There are those[a] who (H)curse their fathers
and do not bless their mothers.
12 There are those who are (I)clean in their own eyes
but are not washed of their filth.
13 There are those—how (J)lofty are their eyes,
how high their eyelids lift!
14 There are those whose teeth are (K)swords,
whose (L)fangs are knives,
to (M)devour the poor from off the earth,
the needy from among mankind.
15 The leech has two daughters:
Give and Give.[b]
(N)Three things are never satisfied;
(O)four never say, “Enough”:
16 (P)Sheol, (Q)the barren womb,
the land never satisfied with water,
and the fire that never says, “Enough.”
17 The eye that (R)mocks a father
and (S)scorns to obey a mother
will (T)be picked out by (U)the ravens of the valley
and eaten by the vultures.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 30:11 Hebrew There is a generation; also verses 12, 13, 14
- Proverbs 30:15 Or “Give, give,” they cry
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