Proverbs 30:18-27

¹⁸Three things be hard to me, and utterly I know not the fourth thing (or and the fourth thing I utterly know not);

¹⁹the way of an eagle in (the) heaven(s); the way of a serpent on a stone; the way of a ship in the middle of the sea; and the way of a man in (his) young waxing age.

²⁰Such is the way of a woman adulteress, which eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I wrought not evil. (Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and then saith, I have done nothing wrong.)

²¹The earth is moved by three things, and by the fourth thing, which it may not sustain;

²²by a servant, when he reigneth; by a fool, when he is filled with meat, (or by a fool, when he is filled full with food);

²³by an hateful woman, when she is taken in matrimony; and by an handmaid, when she is heir of her lady, (or and by a servantess, when she is her lady’s heir).

²⁴Four things be the least things of the earth, and those be wiser than wise men;

²⁵ants, a feeble people, that make ready meat in harvest to themselves; (ants, a weak, or a lowly, people, that store up food for themselves at harvest time;)

²⁶a hare, a people unmighty, that setteth his bed in a stone; (rock badgers, also an unmighty people, who make their beds among the rocks;)

²⁷a locust, (that) hath no king, and (yet) all goeth out by companies;