Proverbs 30:24-33 ▼

24 Four things, they are small on the earth; they are wiser than wise:

25 The ants are a people not strong, and they prepare their food in the summer;

26 the rock badgers are a people not strong, and they set their home in the cliffs;

27 a king is not unto the locust, and go they forth in formation, all of them;

28 the lizard can be caught in one’s hands, and it is in the palaces of king.

29 Three things, they are are doing well of step, even four are doing well in the walk:

30 A lion, mighty among the beasts, and it does not turn back from the face of anything;

31 one girded of loins, or a he-goat, and a king with his army around him.

32 If you have been foolish in lifting up yourself, and if you have schemed—hand to mouth!

33 For as the churning of milk brings forth butter, and pressing of the nose brings forth blood, so the pressing of anger brings forth strife.”