Proverbs 30:15-23

15A greedy leech has two daughters. They are always saying, ‘Give me more!’ There are three things that never have enough for themselves, even four things:

16The deep hole of death. A wife who has no children. Dry ground that needs rain. A fire that burns strongly.

17Punishment will come to anyone who insults his father, or who refuses to listen to his mother. Wild birds will pick out his eyes and vultures will eat his body.

18There are three things that are too difficult for me to understand, even four things:

19How an eagle flies high in the sky. How a snake moves across a rock. How a ship sails on the sea. How a man starts to love a young woman.

20A woman who is not faithful to her husband does this: When she has sex with another man, she thinks it is like a meal that she has eaten. Then she washes herself and she says, ‘I have not done anything wrong.’ That is something else that I cannot understand.

21There are three things that make the earth shake, even four things:

22A slave who becomes a king. A fool who eats too much.

23A woman that nobody loves who marries a husband. A female servant who takes the place of the woman that she has served.