Pro 30:10-33 | ESV | STEP | Do not slander a servant to his master , lest he curse you, and you be held guilty .

10 ^aDo not slander a servant to his master,
^blest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
11 There are those ^{▼▼Hebrew There is a generation; also verses 12, 13, 14} who ^dcurse their fathers
and do not bless their mothers.
12 There are those who are ^eclean in their own eyes
but are not washed of their filth.
13 There are those—how ^flofty are their eyes,
how high their eyelids lift!
14 There are those whose teeth are ^gswords,
whose ^hfangs are knives,
to ⁱdevour the poor from off the earth,
the needy from among mankind.
15 The leech has two daughters:
Give and Give. ^{▼▼Or “ Give, give,” they cry}
^kThree things are never satisfied;
^lfour never say, “Enough”:
16 ^mSheol, ⁿthe barren womb,
the land never satisfied with water,
and the fire that never says, “Enough.”
17 The eye that ^omocks a father
and ^pscorns to obey a mother
will ^qbe picked out by ^rthe ravens of the valley
and eaten by the vultures.
18 ^sThree things are ^ttoo wonderful for me;
^ufour I do not understand:
19 the way of an eagle in the sky,
the way of a serpent on a rock,
the way of a ship on the high seas,
and the way of a man with a virgin.
20 This is the way of an adulteress:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I have done no wrong.”
21 Under ^vthree things ^wthe earth trembles;
under ^xfour it cannot bear up:
22 ^ya slave when he becomes king,
and a fool when he is ^zfilled with food;
23 ^aaan unloved woman when she ^abgets a husband,
and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.
24 ^acFour things on earth are small,
but they are exceedingly wise:
25 ^adthe ants are a people not strong,
yet they provide their food in the summer;
26 ^aethe rock badgers are a people not mighty,
yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
27 the locusts have no ^afking,
yet all of them march in ^agrank;
28 the lizard you can take in your hands,
yet it is in kings’ palaces.
29 ^ahThree things are stately in their tread;
^aifour are stately in their stride:
30 the lion, which is mightiest among beasts
and ^ajdoes not turn back before any;
31 the ^akstrutting rooster, ^{▼▼Or the magpie, or the greyhound; Hebrew girt-of-loins} the he-goat,
and a king whose army is with him. ^{▼▼Or against whom there is no rising up}
32 If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,
or if you have been devising evil,
^anput your hand on your mouth.
33 For pressing milk produces curds,
pressing the nose produces blood,
and pressing anger produces strife.