• • • A Guide to Journaling & Prayer
    • A Guide to Self-Reflection
    • A chart to help articulate feelings

²¹ Under three things the earth trembles;

under four it cannot bear up:

²² a slave when he becomes king,

and a fool when he is filled with food;

²³ an unloved woman when she gets a husband,

and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.

²⁴ Four things on earth are small,

but they are exceedingly wise:

²⁵ the ants are a people not strong,

yet they provide their food in the summer;

²⁶ the rock badgers are a people not mighty,

yet they make their homes in the cliffs;

²⁷ the locusts have no king,

yet all of them march in rank;

²⁸ the lizard you can take in your hands,

yet it is in kings’ palaces.

²⁹ Three things are stately in their tread;

four are stately in their stride:

³⁰ the lion, which is mightiest among beasts

and does not turn back before any;

³¹ the strutting rooster, the he-goat,

and a king whose army is with him.

³² If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,

or if you have been devising evil,

put your hand on your mouth.

³³ For pressing milk produces curds,

pressing the nose produces blood,

and pressing anger produces strife.