Proverbs 30:21-32

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

²²Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;

²³under an odious woman when she is married, and a handmaid when she is heir to her mistress.

²⁴There are four things little upon the earth, and they are exceeding wise:

²⁵The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

²⁶the rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff;

²⁷the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;

²⁸thou takest hold of the lizard with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.

²⁹There are three things which have a stately step, and four are comely in going:

³⁰The lion, mighty among beasts, which turneth not away for any;

³¹a horse girt in the loins; or the he-goat; and a king, against whom none can rise up.

³²If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay the hand upon thy mouth.