Proverbs

¹⁷The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out, and the young vultures will devour it. [Lev. 20:9; Prov. 20:20; 23:22.] ¹⁸There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yes, four which I do not understand: ¹⁹The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid. ²⁰This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, I have done no wickedness. ²¹Under three things the earth is disquieted, and under four it cannot bear up: ²²Under a servant when he reigns, a [empty-headed] fool when he is filled with food, ²³An unloved and repugnant woman when she is married, and a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.