Author: Howard Darko

The words of Agur the Jakeh son of the burden. Spoke the warrior to Itheil, (even) to Itheil and Ucal; Surely (more) brutish I (am) than any man and not the understanding of a man (is) to me And not I have learned wisdom, but the knowledge of holiness do I know. Who has gone up (to) Heaven and return? who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who made rise all the ends of the earth? What (is) His name? And what (is) name His Sons? Surely you know every word of God is tested; a shield He (is) to seekers refuge in Him. not Do add to His words, lest He reprove you, and you be found a liar. Two things I have asked from you; not do hold back from me before I die; vanity and the word of a lie remove far from me; poverty and riches not do give to my; tear for me bread of my portion; lest I become full, and deceive, and say, who is Jehovah? Or lest I become poor and steal, and violate the name of my God. not Do slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty. A generation its father curses, and its mother not does bless; generation pure in its own eyes! and from its filth not is washed A generation O how lofty (are) its eyes! and its eyelids are lifted up, A generation swords ( are its teeth, and knives its jaw teeth, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men, To the leech (are) two daughters (crying) Give! Give! Three (things) they (are) not satisfied; four not have said Enough! Sheol and the barren womb; the earth not filled (with) water; and the fire, not has said, Enough! The eye that mocks (his) father, and despises to obey (his) mother, shall pick it the ravens of the valley; and shall eat it the sons of the eagle. Three (things) they (are) to wonderful for me, and four not I know the way of; an eagle in the heavens the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a virgin so (is) the way of a women adulterous; she eats and wipes her mouth and says, not I have done (any) evil. Under three (things) quakes the earth; under four not it is able to bear up under; a servant when he reigns: and a fool when he is filled with food; under a hated one when she is married; and a handmaid when she is heir to her mistress. Four (things) they(are ) little on the earth, but they (are) the wise ones of thoses made wise; the ants (are) a people not strong yet they prepare in summer their food; the rock badgers (are) a people not mighty, yet they make in the rock their houses; a king not is to the locusts yet they go out, in a swarm all of them. The lizard with the hands you can take and it (is) in palaces the king’s. three things They (are) that go well in a march, and four that go well in walking; a lion (is) mighty among beasts, and not he turns away from facing all; one girded in the loins and the goat he; and a king (when his) army (is) with him If you have been foolish in lifting yourself; or if you plot; (lay) hand on (your) mouth! For squeeze milk, out comes  curds; and squeeze the noses out comes blood; and squeeze wrath it brings forth strife.