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.