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Proverbs 30 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:1 - These things says the man to them that trust in God; and I cease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:2 - For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:3 - God has taught me wisdom, and I know the knowledge of the holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:4 - Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? who has gathered the winds in his [fn] bosom? who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? what is his name? or what is the name of his children?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:5 - For all the words of God are tried in the fire, and he defends those that reverence him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:6 - Add not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be made a liar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:7 - Two things I ask of thee; take not favour from me before I die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8 - Remove far from me vanity and falsehood: and give me not wealth or poverty; but appoint me what is needful and sufficient:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:9 - lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? or be poor and steal, and swear vainly by the name of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:10 - Deliver not a servant into the hands of his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:11 - A wicked generation curse their father, and do not bless their mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:12 - A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:13 - A wicked generation have lofty eyes, and exalt themselves with their eyelids.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:14 - A wicked generation have swords for teeth and jaw-teeth as knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:15 - The horse-leech had three dearly-beloved daughters: and these three did not satisfy her; and the fourth was not contented so as to say, Enough.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:16 - The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:17 - The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonours the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:18 - Moreover there are three things impossible for me to comprehend, and the fourth I know not:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:19 - the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in youth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:20 - Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing [fn] amiss.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:21 - By three thing the earth is troubled, and the fourth it cannot bear:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:22 - if a servant reign; or a fool be filled with food;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:23 - or if a maid-servant should cast out her own mistress; and if a hateful woman should marry a good man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:24 - And there are four very little things upon the earth, but these are wiser than the wise:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:25 - the ants which are weak, and yet prepare their food in summer;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:26 - the rabbits also are a feeble race, who make their houses in the rocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:27 - The locusts have no king, and yet march orderly at one command.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:28 - And the eft, which supports itself by its hands, and is easily taken, dwells in the fortresses of kings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:29 - And there are three things which go well, and a fourth which passes along finely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:30 - A lion's whelp, stronger than all other beasts, which turns not away, nor fears any beast;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:31 - and a cock walking in boldly among the hens, and the goat leading the herd; and a king publicly speaking before a nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:32 - If thou abandon thyself to mirth, and stretch forth thine hand in a quarrel, thou shalt be disgraced.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:33 - Milk out milk, and there shall be butter, and if thou wing one's nostrils there shall come out blood: so if thou extort words, there will come forth quarrels and strifes.
BES Footnotes
Or, fold of his robe.
Gr. out of place.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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