Proverbs 30:9-21

⁹For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

¹⁰Do not say evil of a servant to his master, or he will put a curse on you, and you will get into trouble.

¹¹There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

¹²There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

¹³There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!

¹⁴There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

¹⁵The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:

¹⁶The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.

¹⁷The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

¹⁸There are three things, the wonder of which overcomes me, even four things outside my knowledge:

¹⁹The way of an eagle in the air; 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 girl.

²⁰This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

²¹For three things the earth is moved, and there are four which it will not put up with: