“Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:
It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury— how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
“The leech has two daughters. ‘Give! Give!’ they cry. “There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
“This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’
a servant who becomes king, a godless fool who gets plenty to eat,
There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: