20 An unfaithful wife says,“Sleeping with another manis as natural as eating.”
21 There are three or four thingsthat make the earth trembleand are unbearable:
22 a slave who becomes king,a fool who eats too much,
23 a hateful womanwho finds a husband,and a slave who takes the placeof the woman who owns her.
24 On this earth four thingsare small but very wise:
25 ants, who seem to be feeble,but store up foodall summer long;
26 badgers, who seem to be weak,but live among the rocks;