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.