30:10 Do not slander a servant to his master,
lest he curse you, and you are found guilty.
30:11 There is a generation who curse their fathers
and do not bless their mothers.
30:12 There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes
and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
30:13 There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty,
and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully.
30:14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords
and whose molars are like knives
to devour the poor from the earth
and the needy from among the human race.
30:15 The leech has two daughters:
“Give! Give!”
There are three things that are never satisfied,
four that never say, “Enough” –
30:16 the grave, the barren womb,
land that is not satisfied with water,
and fire that never says, “Enough!”
30:17 The eye that mocks at a father
and despises obeying a mother –
the ravens of the valley will peck it out
and the young vultures will eat it.
30:18 There are three things that are too wonderful for me,
four that I do not understand:
30:19 the way of an eagle in the sky,
the way of a snake on a rock,
the way of a ship in the sea,
and the way of a man with a woman.
30:20 This is the way of an adulterous woman:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I have not done wrong.”
30:21 Under three things the earth trembles,
and under four things it cannot bear up:
30:22 under a servant who becomes king,
under a fool who is stuffed with food,
30:23 under an unloved woman who is married,
and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.
30:24 There are four things on earth that are small,
but they are exceedingly wise:
30:25 ants are creatures with little strength,
but they prepare their food in the summer;
30:26 rock badgers are creatures with little power,
but they make their homes in the crags;
30:27 locusts have no king,
but they all go forward by ranks;
30:28 a lizard you can catch with the hand,
but it gets into the palaces of the king.
30:29 There are three things that are magnificent in their step,
four things that move about magnificently:
30:30 a lion, mightiest of the beasts,
who does not retreat from anything;
30:31 a strutting rooster, a male goat,
and a king with his army around him.
30:32 If you have done foolishly by exalting yourself
or if you have planned evil,
put your hand over your mouth!
30:33 For as the churning of milk produces butter
and as punching the nose produces blood,
so stirring up anger produces strife.