Proverbs 30:16-22

¹⁶Sheol; the barren womb; land that is never satisfied with water; and the fire that never says, “Enough!”

¹⁷The eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, his eyes will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley, and he will be eaten by the vultures.

¹⁸There are three things that are too wonderful for me, four that I do not understand:

¹⁹the way of an eagle in the sky; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a young woman.

²⁰This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and she wipes her mouth and says, “I have done nothing wrong.”

²¹Under three things the earth trembles, and under four it cannot bear up:

²²a slave when he becomes king; a fool when he is filled with food;