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¹ These things says the man to them that trust in God; and I cease.

² For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men. ³ God has taught me wisdom, and I know the knowledge of the holy.

⁴ Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? who has gathered the winds in his 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? ⁵ For all the words of God are tried in the fire, and he defends those that reverence him.

⁶ Add not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be made a liar.⁷ Two things I ask of thee; take not favour from me before I die.

⁸ Remove far from me vanity and falsehood: and give me not wealth or poverty; but appoint me what is needful and sufficient: 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.¹⁰ Deliver not a servant into the hands of his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be utterly destroyed.

¹¹ A wicked generation curse their father, and do not bless their mother. ¹² A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.

¹³ A wicked generation have lofty eyes, and exalt themselves with their eyelids.

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.

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.

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.

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.

¹⁸ Moreover there are three things impossible for me to comprehend, and the fourth I know not:

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.

²⁰ Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing amiss.

²¹ By three thing the earth is troubled, and the fourth it cannot bear: ²² if a servant reign; or a fool be filled with food;

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

²⁴ And there are four very little things upon the earth, but these are wiser than the wise:

²⁵ the ants which are weak, and yet prepare their food in summer;

²⁶ the rabbits also are a feeble race, who make their houses in the rocks.

²⁷ The locusts have no king, and yet march orderly at one command.

²⁸ And the eft, which supports itself by its hands, and is easily taken, dwells in the fortresses of kings.