Proverbs 30:13-33

¹³A generation — how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.

¹⁴A generation — swords are their teeth, And knives — their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from among men.

¹⁵To the leech are two daughters, 'Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said 'Sufficiency;'

¹⁶Sheol, and a restrained womb, Earth — it is not satisfied with water, And fire — it hath not said, 'Sufficiency,'

¹⁷An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

¹⁸Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known:

¹⁹The way of the eagle in the heavens, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the heart of the sea, And the way of a man in youth.

²⁰So — the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, 'I have not done iniquity.'

²¹For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four — it is not able to bear:

²²For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,

²³For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.

²⁴Four are little ones of earth, And they are made wiser than the wise:

²⁵The ants are a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,

²⁶Conies are a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,

²⁷A king there is not to the locust, And it goeth out — each one shouting,

²⁸A spider with two hands taketh hold, And is in the palaces of a king.

²⁹Three there are going well, Yea, four are good in going:

³⁰An old lion — mighty among beasts, That turneth not back from the face of any,

³¹A girt one of the loins, or a he-goat, And a king — no rising up with him.

³²If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil — hand to mouth!

³³For the churning of milk bringeth out butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth out blood, And the forcing of anger bringeth out strife!