14. Don’t be greedy,merciless and cruel as wolves,Tearing into the poor and feasting on them,shredding the needy to pieces only to discard them.
15-16. A leech has twin daughtersnamed “Gimme” and “Gimme more.”Three things are never satisfied,no, there are four that never say, “That’s enough, thank you!”—hell,a barren womb,a parched land,a forest fire.
17. An eye that disdains a fatherand despises a mother—that eye will be plucked out by wild vulturesand consumed by young eagles.
18-19. Three things amaze me,no, four things I’ll never understand—how an eagle flies so high in the sky,how a snake glides over a rock,how a ship navigates the ocean,why adolescents act the way they do.