Proverbs 30:10-20

English Standard Version

^10 (A)Do not slander a servant to his master,
    ^(B)lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

¹¹ There are those^[a] who ^(C)curse their fathers
    and do not bless their mothers.
¹² There are those who are ^(D)clean in their own eyes
    but are not washed of their filth.
¹³ There are those—how ^(E)lofty are their eyes,
    how high their eyelids lift!
¹⁴ There are those whose teeth are ^(F)swords,
    whose ^(G)fangs are knives,
to ^(H)devour the poor from off the earth,
    the needy from among mankind.

¹⁵ The leech has two daughters:
    Give and Give.^[b]
(I)Three things are never satisfied;
    ^(J)four never say, “Enough”:
^16 (K)Sheol, ^(L)the barren womb,
    the land never satisfied with water,
    and the fire that never says, “Enough.”

¹⁷ The eye that ^(M)mocks a father
    and ^(N)scorns to obey a mother
will ^(O)be picked out by ^(P)the ravens of the valley
    and eaten by the vultures.

^18 (Q)Three things are ^(R)too wonderful for me;
    ^(S)four I do not understand:
¹⁹ the way of an eagle in the sky,
    the way of a serpent on a rock,
the way of a ship on the high seas,
    and the way of a man with a virgin.

²⁰ This is the way of an adulteress:
    she eats and wipes her mouth
    and says, “I have done no wrong.”