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Book of Proverbs, Chapter 30

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Proverbs 30 NWT - New World TranslationProverbs 30 NWT - New World Translation

Chapter 30 of Proverbs—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ The words of Aʹgur the son of Jaʹkeh, the weighty message.1 The utterance of the able-bodied man to Ithʹi·el, to Ithʹi·el and Uʹcal.
  2. ¶ For I am more unreasoning than anyone else,2 and I do not have the understanding of mankind;3
  3. and I have not learned wisdom;4 and the knowledge of the Most Holy One[a] I do not know.5
  4. ¶ Who has ascended to heaven that he may descend?6 Who has gathered the wind7 in the hollow of both hands? Who has wrapped up the waters in a mantle?8 Who has made all the ends of the earth to rise?9 What is his name10 and what the name of his son, in case you know?11
  5. ¶ Every saying of God[b] is refined.12 He is a shield to those taking refuge in him.13
  6. Add nothing to his words,14 that he may not reprove you, and that you may not have to be proved a liar.15
  7. ¶ Two things I have asked of you.16 Do not withhold them from me before I die.17
  8. Untruth and the lying word put far away from me.18 Give me neither poverty nor riches.19 Let me devour the food prescribed for me,20
  9. that I may not become satisfied and I actually deny [you]21 and say: “Who is Jehovah?”22 and that I may not come to poverty and I actually steal and assail the name of my God.[c]23
  10. ¶ Do not slander a servant to his master,[d]24 that he may not call down evil upon you, and that you may not have to be held guilty.25
  11. ¶ There is a generation that calls down evil even upon its father and that does not bless even its mother.26
  12. ¶ There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes27 but that has not been washed from its own excrement.28
  13. ¶ There is a generation whose eyes have become O how lofty! and whose beaming eyes are lifted up.29
  14. ¶ There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jawbones are slaughtering knives,30 to eat up the afflicted ones off the earth and the poor ones from among mankind.[e]31
  15. ¶ The leeches have two daughters [that cry]: “Give! Give!” There are three things that do not get satisfied, four that have not said: “Enough!”
  16. Sheʹol32 and a restrained womb,[f]33 a land that has not been satisfied with water,34 and fire35 that has not said: “Enough!”36
  17. ¶ The eye that holds a father in derision and that despises obedience to a mother37—the ravens of the torrent valley will pick it out and the sons of the eagle will eat it up.
  18. ¶ There are three things that have proved too wonderful[g] for me, and four that I have not come to know:
  19. the way of an eagle in the heavens, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea38 and the way of an able-bodied man with a maiden.39
  20. ¶ Here is the way of an adulterous woman: she has eaten and has wiped her mouth and she has said: “I have committed no wrong.”40
  21. ¶ Under three things the earth has been agitated, and under four it is not able to endure:
  22. under a slave when he rules as king,41 and someone senseless when he has his sufficiency of food;42
  23. under a hated woman when she is taken possession of as a wife,43 and a maidservant when she dispossesses her mistress.44
  24. ¶ There are four things that are the smallest of the earth, but they are instinctively wise:[h]45
  25. the ants are a people not strong,46 and yet in the summer they prepare their food;47
  26. the rock badgers48 are a people not mighty, and yet upon a crag is where they put their house;49
  27. the locusts50 have no king, and yet they go forth all of them divided into groups;51
  28. the gecko52 lizard takes hold with its own hands and it is in the grand palace[i] of a king.
  29. ¶ There are three that do well in [their] pacing, and four that do well in [their] moving along:
  30. the lion, which is the mightiest among the beasts and which does not turn back from before anyone;53
  31. the greyhound[j] or the he-goat, and a king of a band of soldiers of his own people.[k]54
  32. ¶ If you have acted senselessly by lifting yourself up,55 and if you have fixed your thought [upon it], [put] the hand to the mouth.56
  33. For the churning of milk is what brings forth butter, and the squeezing of the nose is what brings forth blood, and the squeezing out of anger is what brings forth quarreling.57

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “The Most Holy One.” Heb., Qedho·shimʹ, pl. of qa·dhohshʹ, to denote excellence and majesty. See 9:10 ftn.
  2. ^ “Every saying of God.” Heb., kol-ʼim·rathʹ ʼElohʹah.
  3. ^ “The name of my God.” Heb., shem ʼElo·haiʹ, pl. of ʼElohʹah.
  4. ^ “His master.” Mmargin(Heb.), ʼadho·navʹ, pl. of ʼa·dhohnʹ, to denote excellence.
  5. ^ Lit., “from among earthling man.” Heb., me·ʼa·dhamʹ; but possibly meant to read me·ʼadha·mahʹ, “from the ground.”
  6. ^ Lit., “restraint of the womb.”
  7. ^ “Impossible things; too difficult,” LXX; Lat., dif·fi·ciʹli·a, “difficult things.”
  8. ^ Lit., “are wise ones, being made wise.”
  9. ^ Or, “in the palaces.” Heb., beheh·khelehʹ.
  10. ^ Or, “the rooster”; or, “the war-horse.” Lit., “the [animal] girded in at the hips (loins).”
  11. ^ Or, “a king against whom there is no rising up by his people.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 2Ti 3:16; 2Pe 1:21
  2. ^ Jb 42:3; Ps 73:22; 1Co 3:18
  3. ^ Ps 92:6
  4. ^ Jm 1:5
  5. ^ Pr 2:6; 8:1
  6. ^ Ps 115:16; Jn 3:13; Eph 4:9
  7. ^ Ec 1:6
  8. ^ Is 40:12
  9. ^ Jb 38:4
  10. ^ Ex 3:15; 6:3; Ps 83:18
  11. ^ Ps 2:7; Mt 1:21; Jn 5:22; Ac 4:12; Pp 2:6; 1Ti 2:5; Heb 6:20; Re 19:16
  12. ^ 2Sa 22:31; Ps 12:6; 18:30; 119:140
  13. ^ Ge 15:1; Ps 84:11
  14. ^ De 4:2; Re 22:18
  15. ^ Ro 3:4
  16. ^ Ps 27:4; Lu 10:42; 1Jo 3:22; 5:14
  17. ^ Ps 21:2
  18. ^ Pr 12:22; 21:6
  19. ^ Pr 23:5
  20. ^ Mt 6:11; 1Ti 6:8
  21. ^ De 6:12; 8:11
  22. ^ Ex 5:2
  23. ^ Ex 20:7; De 5:11; Pr 6:30
  24. ^ De 23:15
  25. ^ Da 6:24; Mr 7:5
  26. ^ Le 20:9; De 27:16; Pr 19:26; 20:20; Mr 7:11; 2Ti 3:2
  27. ^ Ps 36:2; Is 65:5; Lu 16:15; 2Ti 3:4; 1Jo 1:8
  28. ^ Mt 23:27; Lu 11:39
  29. ^ Ps 101:5; Pr 6:17; 21:4; Is 2:11; 2Th 2:4
  30. ^ Ps 3:7; 57:4
  31. ^ Ps 14:4; Pr 22:16; Is 32:7; Mc 3:3; Hab 3:14; Mr 12:40; Jm 5:4
  32. ^ Pr 27:20; Hab 2:5
  33. ^ Ge 20:18; 30:22; 1Sa 1:5
  34. ^ De 8:15; Ps 107:33
  35. ^ Jm 3:5
  36. ^ Pr 27:20
  37. ^ Le 20:9; De 21:21; 2Sa 17:1; Pr 20:20; 23:22; Ro 1:30; 2Ti 3:2
  38. ^ Ps 77:19
  39. ^ Nu 5:13
  40. ^ Pr 7:11; Je 6:15
  41. ^ Pr 19:10; Ec 10:7; Is 3:4
  42. ^ De 8:12; 1Sa 25:36
  43. ^ Pr 21:19; 27:15
  44. ^ Ge 16:5
  45. ^ Jb 12:7; 35:11
  46. ^ Pr 6:6
  47. ^ Pr 6:8
  48. ^ Le 11:5
  49. ^ Ps 104:18
  50. ^ Ex 10:14; Ps 105:34; Jl 1:4
  51. ^ Jl 2:7
  52. ^ Le 11:30
  53. ^ Nu 23:24; Jg 14:5, 18; Is 31:4
  54. ^ 2Sa 10:18
  55. ^ 2Sa 15:4; Es 5:11; Pr 26:12; Ro 12:16
  56. ^ Jb 21:5; Pr 27:2
  57. ^ Pr 26:21; 28:25

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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