20. This is the way of an adulteress:she eats and wipes her mouthand says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”
21. The earth trembles under three things;it cannot bear up under four:
22. a servant when he becomes king, a fool when he is stuffed with food,
23. an unloved woman when she marries, and a servant girl when she ousts her queen.
24. Four things on earth are small,yet they are extremely wise:
25. the ants are not a strong people,yet they store up their food in the summer;
26. hyraxes are not a mighty people,yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
27. locusts have no king,yet all of them march in ranks;