Proverbs 30:17-19

International Children’s Bible

¹⁷ “Don’t make fun of your father.
    Don’t refuse to obey your mother.
If you do, your eye will be pecked out by the birds of the valley.
    You will be eaten by hawks.

¹⁸ “There are three things that are too hard for me.
    There are really four that I don’t understand:
¹⁹ the way an eagle flies in the sky,
    the way a snake slides over a rock,
the way a ship sails on the sea
    and the way a man acts with a girl.