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The eye that mocketh at a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
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There are three [things] too wonderful for me, and four that I know not:
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The way of an eagle in the heavens, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid.
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Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
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Under three [things] the earth is disquieted, and under four it cannot bear up:
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Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;
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under an odious [woman] when she is married, and a handmaid when she is heir to her mistress.
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There are four [things] little upon the earth, and they are exceeding wise:
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The ants, a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
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the rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff;
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the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;