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There is a type of people clean in their own view, but not cleansed from their filth.
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There is a type of people - how haughty their look! -utterly supercilious!
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There is a type of people whose teeth are like swords, yes, their fangs are knives; they devour the poor from the earth, the needy from humankind.
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The leech has two daughters; they cry, "Give! Give!" Three things are never satisfied; four never say, "Enough!"
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Sh'ol and a barren womb; the earth, never satisfied with water; and fire, which never says, "Enough!"
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The eye that mocks his father and scorns obeying his mother will be pecked out by the ravens in the valley, and the vultures will eat it.
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Three things are too wonderful for me, four beyond my knowledge
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the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the open sea, and the way of a man with a girl.
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This is how an unfaithful wife behaves: she eats, wipes her mouth, and says, "I did nothing wrong."
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Three things make the earth quake, four things it can't bear -
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a slave who becomes king, a boor gorged with food,