14. --a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
15. The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three things never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough:
16. --Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.
17. The eye that mocketh at a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
18. There are three things too wonderful for me, and four that I know not:
19. The way of an eagle in the heavens, 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. Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, 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 reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;
23. under an odious woman when she is married, and a handmaid when she is heir to her mistress.
24. There are four things little upon the earth, and they are exceeding wise:
25. The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
26. the rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff;
27. the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;