Proverbs 30:10–31

^10cDo not slander a servant to his master,

^dlest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

¹¹There are those³ who ^ecurse their fathers

and do not bless their mothers.

¹²There are those who are ^fclean in their own eyes

but are not washed of their filth.

¹³There are those—how ^glofty are their eyes,

how high their eyelids lift!

¹⁴There are those whose teeth are ^hswords,

whose ⁱfangs are knives,

to ^jdevour the poor from off the earth,

the needy from among mankind.

¹⁵The leech has two daughters:

Give and Give.⁴

^kThree things are never satisfied;

^kfour never say, “Enough”:

^16lSheol, ^mthe barren womb,

the land never satisfied with water,

and the fire that never says, “Enough.”

¹⁷The eye that ⁿmocks a father

and ^oscorns to obey a mother

will ^pbe picked out by ^qthe ravens of the valley

and eaten by the vultures.

^18kThree things are ^rtoo wonderful for me;

^kfour I do not understand:

¹⁹the way of an eagle in the sky,

the way of a serpent on a rock,

the way of a ship on the high seas,

and the way of a man with a virgin.

²⁰This is the way of an adulteress:

she eats and wipes her mouth

and says, “I have done no wrong.”

²¹Under ^kthree things ^sthe earth trembles;

under ^kfour it cannot bear up:

^22ta slave when he becomes king,

and a fool when he is ^ufilled with food;

^23van unloved woman when she ^wgets a husband,

and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.

^24kFour things on earth are small,

but they are exceedingly wise:

^25xthe ants are a people not strong,

yet they provide their food in the summer;

^26ythe rock badgers are a people not mighty,

yet they make their homes in the cliffs;

²⁷the locusts have no ^zking,

yet all of them march in ^arank;

²⁸the lizard you can take in your hands,

yet it is in kings’ palaces.

^29bThree things are stately in their tread;

^bfour are stately in their stride:

³⁰the lion, which is mightiest among beasts

and ^cdoes not turn back before any;

³¹the ^dstrutting rooster,⁵ the he-goat,

and a king whose army is with him.⁶