17 Those who make fun of their father or despise their mother in her old age ought to be eaten by vultures or have their eyes picked out by wild ravens.
18 There are four things that are too mysterious for me to understand:
19 an eagle flying in the sky,a snake moving on a rock,a ship finding its way over the sea,and a man and a woman falling in love.
20 This is how an unfaithful wife acts: she commits adultery, has a bath, and says, “But I haven't done anything wrong!”
21 There are four things that the earth itself cannot tolerate:
22 a slave who becomes a king,a fool who has all he wants to eat,
23 a hateful woman who gets married,and a servant woman who takes the place of her mistress.