Proverbs 30:12-27

¹²There is a generation that are pure in their owne conceite, and yet are not washed from their filthinesse.

¹³There is a generation, whose eies are hautie, and their eye liddes are lifted vp.

¹⁴There is a generation, whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth, and the poore from among men.

¹⁵The horse leache hath two daughters which crye, Giue, giue. There be three things that will not be satisfied: yea, foure that say not, It is ynough.

¹⁶The graue, and the barren wombe, the earth that cannot be satisfied with water, and the fire that sayeth not, It is ynough.

¹⁷The eye that mocketh his father and despiseth the instruction of his mother, let ye rauens of the valley picke it out, and the yong eagles eate it.

¹⁸There be three thinges hid from me: yea, foure that I knowe not,

¹⁹The way of an eagle in the aire, the way of a serpent vpon a stone, ye way of a ship in ye middes of the sea, and the way of a man with a maide.

²⁰Such is ye way also of an adulterous woman: she eateth and wipeth her mouth, and sayth, I haue not committed iniquitie.

²¹For three things the earth is moued: yea, for foure it cannot susteine it selfe:

²²For a seruant when he reigneth, and a foole when he is filled with meate,

²³For the hatefull woman, when she is married, and for a handmaid that is heire to her mistres.

²⁴These be foure small things in the earth, yet they are wise and full of wisedome:

²⁵The pismires a people not strong, yet prepare they their meate in sommer:

²⁶The conies a people not mightie, yet make their houses in the rocke:

²⁷The grashopper hath no King, yet goe they forth all by bandes: