15 The bloodsucking leech has two daughters—“Give!” and “Give!”Three things are never satisfied.Four never say, “Enough!”:
16 the grave,a barren womb,a land that never gets enough water,a fire that does not say, “Enough!”
17 The eye that makes fun of a father and hates to obey a motherwill be plucked out by ravens in the valley and eaten by young vultures.
18 Three things are too amazing to me,even four that I cannot understand:
19 an eagle making its way through the sky,a snake making its way over a rock,a ship making its way through high seas,a man making his way with a virgin.
20 This is the way of a woman who commits adultery:She eats, wipes her mouth,and says, “I haven’t done anything wrong!”
21 Three things cause the earth to tremble,even four it cannot bear up under: