Proverbs 30:12-25

¹²A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.

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

¹⁴A 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.

¹⁵The 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.

¹⁶The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough.

¹⁷The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.

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

¹⁹the 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.

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

²¹By three thing the earth is troubled, and the fourth it can’t bear:

²²if a servant reign; or a fool be filled with food;

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

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

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