Proverbs 30:12-19 Common English Bible (CEB)

12. There are those who think they are clean,but haven’t washed off their own excrement.

13. There are those—how arrogant are their eyes;how their eyebrows are raised!

14. There are those whose teeth are swords;their jaw is a butcher’s knife,ready to devour the needy from the earth,and the poor from humanity.

15. The leech has two daughters: “Give, give!”There are three things that are never satisfied,four that never say, “Enough!”:

16. the grave and a barren womb,a land never filled with water,and fire that doesn’t say, “Enough!”

17. An eye that mocks a fatherand rejects obedience to a mother,may the ravens of the river valley peck it out,and the eagle’s young eat it.

18. Three things are too wonderful for me,four that I can’t figure out:

19. the way of an eagle in the sky,the way of a snake on the rock,the way of a ship out on the open sea,and the way of a man with a young woman.

Proverbs 30