Proverbs 30:16-19

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^15-16There are two things never satisfied, like a leech forever craving more: no, three things! no, four! Hell, the barren womb, a barren desert, fire.

¹⁷A man who mocks his father and despises his mother shall have his eye plucked out by ravens and eaten by vultures.

^18-19There are three things too wonderful for me to understand—no, four!

How an eagle glides through the sky.
How a serpent crawls upon a rock.
How a ship finds its way across the heaving ocean.
The growth of love between a man and a girl.[a]

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Footnotes

Proverbs 30:18 The growth of love between a man and a girl, literally, “The way of a man with a maid.” Some linguists believe the meaning is, “Why a girl will let herself be seduced.”