23. for a hateful woman when she is married,and a handmaid who 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 her hands,and is in kings’ palaces.
29. There are three things which go well,indeed, four are comely in going:
30. a lion which is strongest among beasts,and does not turn away for any;
31. a strutting rooster, a male goat also,and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
32. If you have been foolish in lifting up yourself,or if you have thought evil,put your hand on your mouth.