7. Two things do I ask of thee; deny me them not before I die:
8. Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:
9. lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is Jehovah? or lest I be poor and steal, and outrage the name of my God
10. Speak not too much about a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.
11. There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;
12. there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;
13. there is a generation, --how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!
14. --a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
15. The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three things never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough:
16. --Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.
17. The eye that mocketh at a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
18. There are three things too wonderful for me, and four that I know not:
19. The way of an eagle in the heavens, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid.
20. Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
21. Under three things the earth is disquieted, and under four it cannot bear up: