20. This is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness.
21. For three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:
22. For a servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with food;
23. For an unloved woman when she is married; and a maidservant that is heir to her mistress.
24. There are four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
25. The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;
26. The badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks;
27. The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;
28. The spider takes hold with its hands, and is in kings' palaces.
29. There are three things which are stately in stride, yea, four are stately in their walk:
30. A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turns not away from any;
31. A greyhound; a male goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
32. If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth.
33. Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood: so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.