20. This is the way of a woman committing adultery: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says “I have not done wrong.”
21. Under three things the earth trembles, and under four, it is not able to bear up:
22. under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied with food;
23. under an unloved woman when she gets married, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.
24. There are four small things on the earth, and they are exceedingly wise:
25. The ants are a people who are not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;
26. the badgers are a people who are not mighty, yet they set their house on the rock;
27. there is no king for the locust, yet it marches in rank;
28. a lizard you can seize with hands, yet it is in palaces of kings.
29. There are three things that are magnificent of stride, and four that are magnificent when moving:
30. a mighty lion among the beasts, but he will not turn back from any face;
31. a strutting rooster or he-goat, and a king whose army is with him.
32. If you have been foolish by exalting yourself, and if you have devised evil, put your hand to your mouth.
33. For pressing milk produces curd, and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing anger produces strife.