Proverbs 30:16-18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 Sheol, a barren womb,(A)
land that never gets its fill of water,
and fire, which never says, “Enough!”
17 The eye that mocks a father,
or scorns the homage due a mother,
Will be plucked out by brook ravens;
devoured by a brood of vultures.
18 [a]Three things are too wonderful for me,
yes, four I cannot understand:
Footnotes
- 30:18–19 The soaring flight of the eagle, the mysterious movement upon a rock of the serpent which has no feet, the path of the ship through the trackless deep, and the marvelous attraction between the sexes; there is a mysterious way common to them all.
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