Daily Thread – Proverbs 30

And does not bless its mother.
¹² There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.
¹³ There is a generation—oh, how lofty are their eyes!
And their eyelids are ^[b]lifted up.
¹⁴ There is a generation whose teeth are like swords,
And whose fangs are like knives,
To devour the poor from off the earth,
And the needy from among men.

¹⁵ The leech has two daughters—
Give and Give!

There are three things that are never satisfied,
Four never say, “Enough!”:
¹⁶ The^[c] grave,
The barren womb,
The earth that is not satisfied with water—
And the fire never says, “Enough!”

¹⁷ The eye that mocks his father,
And scorns obedience to his mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young eagles will eat it.

¹⁸ There are three things which are too wonderful for me,
Yes, four which I do not understand:
¹⁹ The way of an eagle in the air,
The way of a serpent on a rock,
The way of a ship in the ^[d]midst of the sea,
And the way of a man with a virgin.

²⁰ This is the way of an adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth,
And says, “I have done no wickedness.”