Proverbs 30:8-27

⁸Make thou far from me vanity and words of leasing; give thou not to me begging and riches; but give thou only necessaries to my lifelode;

⁹lest peradventure I be full-filled, and be drawn to deny, and say, Who is the Lord? and lest I be compelled by neediness, and steal, and forswear the name of my God.

¹⁰Accuse thou not a servant to his lord, lest peradventure he curse thee, and thou fall down.

¹¹A generation that curseth his father, and that blesseth not his mother.

¹²A generation that seemeth clean to itself, and nevertheless is not washed from his filths.

¹³A generation whose eyes be high, and the eyelids thereof be raised up into high things.

¹⁴A generation that hath swords for teeth, and eateth with his cheek teeth; that it eat the needy men of the earth, and the poor-alls or the poor of men.

¹⁵The water leach hath two daughters, saying, Bring, bring. Three things be unable to be filled, and the fourth, that saith never, It sufficeth;

¹⁶hell; and the mouth of the womb; and the earth that is never filled with water; but fire that saith never, It sufficeth.

¹⁷Crows of the strand or the streams peck out that eye, that scorneth the father, and that despiseth the child-bearing of his mother; and the young of an eagle eat that eye.

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

¹⁹the way of an eagle in heaven; 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.

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;

²³by an hateful woman, when she is taken in matrimony; and by an handmaid, when she is heir of her lady.

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;

²⁶a hare, a people unmighty, that setteth his bed in a stone;

²⁷a locust hath no king, and all goeth out by companies;