There be three [things which] are too wonderful for me Which were above his reach and comprehension; what he could not find out, nor account for, nor sufficiently admire; yea, four things which I know not; the way of them; as follows.
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Hell and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which is not satisfied with water: and the fire never saith: It is enough.
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The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.
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Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly ignorant of.
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The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man in youth.
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Such also is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.