20. An unfaithful wife says,“Sleeping with another manis as natural as eating.”
21. There are three or four thingsthat make the earth trembleand are unbearable:
22. a slave who becomes king,a fool who eats too much,
23. a hateful womanwho finds a husband,and a slave who takes the placeof the woman who owns her.
24. On this earth four thingsare small but very wise:
25. ants, who seem to be feeble,but store up foodall summer long;
26. badgers, who seem to be weak,but live among the rocks;
27. locusts, who have no king,but march like an army;
28. lizards, which can be caughtin your hand,but sneak into palaces.
29. Three or four creaturesreally strut around: