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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.

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17 “The eye that mocks(A) a father,
    that scorns an aged mother,
will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley,
    will be eaten by the vultures.(B)

18 “There are three things that are too amazing for me,
    four that I do not understand:
19 the way of an eagle in the sky,
    the way of a snake on a rock,
the way of a ship on the high seas,
    and the way of a man with a young woman.

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