Four things are least upon the earth, and they are wiser than the wise:
In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you.
by a hateful woman when she has been taken in matrimony, and by a handmaid when she has been heir to her mistress.
the ants, an infirm people who provide food for themselves at the harvest,
Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom.