20. Such is also the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.
21. By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear:
22. By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when he is filled with meat:
23. By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.
24. There are four very little things of the earth, and they are wiser than the wise:
25. The ants, a feeble people, which provide themselves food in the harvest:
26. The rabbit, a weak people, which maketh its bed in the rock:
27. The locust hath no king, yet they all go out by their bands.
28. The stellio supporteth itself on hands, and dwelleth in kings' houses.
29. There are three things, which go well, and the fourth that walketh happily:
30. A lion, the strongest of beasts, who hath no fear of any thing he meeteth:
31. A cock girded about the loins: and a ram: and a king, whom none can resist.
32. There is that hath appeared a fool after he was lifted up on high: for if he had understood, he would have laid his hand upon his mouth.
33. And he that strongly squeezeth the papa to bring out milk, straineth out butter: and he that violently bloweth his nose, bringeth out blood: and he that provoketh wrath bringeth forth strife.