Proverbs 30:13-28

¹³There is a generation—O how lofty are its eyes! and its eyelids are so lifted up.

¹⁴There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and whose string teeth are as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

¹⁵Insatiability hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things which never say, Enough:

¹⁶The nether world; and a barren womb; the earth which is not satisfied with water; and the fire which never saith, Enough.

¹⁷The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, this shall the ravens of the valley pick out; and the young eagles shall eat it.

¹⁸Three things there are which are too wonderful for me; and four, which I know not:

¹⁹The way of the eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a young woman.

²⁰Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wrong.

²¹Under three things the earth trembleth, and under four which she cannot bear:

²²Under a servant when he becometh king, and a worthless fool when he hath eaten enough bread;

²³Under an odious woman when she is married, and a bond-woman when she dispossesseth her mistress.

²⁴There are four which are the little ones of the earth, and they are nevertheless exceedingly wise:

²⁵The ants are a people not strong, therefore do they prepare in the summer their food;

²⁶The conies are but a feeble people, therefore do they place on the rocks their houses;

²⁷The locusts have no king, and yet they go forth in troops altogether;

²⁸The spider thou canst catch with thy hands, and yet she is in the palaces of a king.