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.