Proverbs 30:17-25

¹⁷The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonours 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;