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chapter 30
1
The
words of Gatherer the son of Vomiter. The vision which the man spoke with whom
God is, and who being strengthened by God, abiding with him, said:
2 I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men
is not with me.
3 I have not learned wisdom, and have not known the
science of saints.
4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? who
hath held the wind in his hands? who hath bound up the waters together as in a
garment? who hath raised up all the borders of the earth? what is his name, and
what is the name of his son, if thou knowest?
5 Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to
them that hope in him.
6 Add not any thing to his words, lest thou be
reproved, and found a liar:
7 Two things I have asked of thee, deny them not to me
before I die.
8 Remove far from me vanity, and lying words. Give me
neither beggary, nor riches: give me only the necessaries of life:
9 Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to
deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal,
and forswear the name of my God.
10 Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse
thee, and thou fall.
11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and
doth not bless their mother.
12 A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet
are not washed from their filthiness.
13 A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their
eyelids lifted up on high.
14 A generation, that for teeth hath swords, and
grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the
poor from among men.
15 The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring,
bring. There are three things that never are satisfied, and the fourth never
saith: It is enough.
16 Hell, and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which
is not satisfied with water: and the fire never saith: It is enough.
17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and that
despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks
pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.
18 Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am
utterly ignorant of.
19 The way of an eagle in the air, 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 in
youth.
20 Such is also the way of an adulterous woman, who
eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.
21 By three things the earth is disturbed, and the
fourth it cannot bear:
22 By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when he is
filled with meat:
23 By an odious woman when she is married: and by a
bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.
24 There are four very little things of the earth, and
they are wiser than the wise:
25 The ants, a feeble people, which provide themselves
food in the harvest:
26 The rabbit, a weak people, which maketh its bed in
the rock:
27 The locust hath no king, yet they all go out by
their bands.
28 The stellio supporteth itself on hands, and dwelleth
in kings' houses.
29 There are three things, which go well, and the
fourth that walketh happily:
30 A lion, the strongest of beasts, who hath no fear of
any thing he meeteth:
31 A cock girded about the loins: and a ram: and a
king, whom none can resist.
32 There is that hath appeared a fool after he was
lifted up on high: for if he had understood, he would have laid his hand upon
his mouth.
33 And he that strongly squeezeth the papa to bring out
milk, straineth out butter: and he that violently bloweth his nose, bringeth
out blood: and he that provoketh wrath bringeth forth strife.
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