Proverbs 30:15-23

15The leech has two suckers that cry out, “More, more!” There are three things that are never satisfied— no, four that never say, “Enough!”:

16the grave, the barren womb, the thirsty desert, the blazing fire.

17The eye that mocks a father and despises a mother’s instructions will be plucked out by ravens of the valley and eaten by vultures.

18There are three things that amaze me— no, four things that I don’t understand:

19how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman.

20An adulterous woman consumes a man, then wipes her mouth and says, “What’s wrong with that?”

21There are three things that make the earth tremble— no, four it cannot endure:

22a slave who becomes a king, an overbearing fool who prospers,

23a bitter woman who finally gets a husband, a servant girl who supplants her mistress.