18. There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yes, four which I do not understand:
19. The 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.
20. This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, I have done no wickedness.
21. Under three things the earth is disquieted, and under four it cannot bear up:
22. Under a servant when he reigns, a [empty-headed] fool when he is filled with food,
23. An unloved and repugnant woman when she is married, and a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.
24. There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:
25. The ants are a people not strong, yet they lay up their food in the summer; [Prov. 6:6.]
26. The conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks; [Ps. 104:18.]
27. The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;