18 (A)Three things are (B)too wonderful for me;
    (C)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.”

21 Under (D)three things (E)the earth trembles;
    under (F)four it cannot bear up:
22 (G)a slave when he becomes king,
    and a fool when he is (H)filled with food;
23 (I)an unloved woman when she (J)gets a husband,
    and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.

24 (K)Four things on earth are small,
    but they are exceedingly wise:

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