Who has gone up to heaven and come down?
Who has gathered the wind in his hands?
Who has bound up the waters in a cloak?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name,
and what is the name of his son —
if you know?
Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me.
Give me neither poverty nor wealth;
feed me with the food I need.
There is a generation whose teeth are swords,
whose fangs are knives,
devouring the oppressed from the land
and the needy from among mankind.
The leech has two daughters: “Give, Give! ”
Three things are never satisfied;
four never say, “Enough! ”:
Sheol; a childless womb;
earth, which is never satisfied with water;
and fire, which never says, “Enough! ”
As for the eye that ridicules a father
and despises obedience to a mother,
may ravens of the valley pluck it out
and young vultures eat it.
the way of an eagle in the sky,
the way of a snake on a rock,
the way of a ship at sea,
and the way of a man with a young woman.
This is the way of an adulteress:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”
If you have been foolish by exalting yourself
or if you’ve been scheming,
put your hand over your mouth.
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