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17 If you make fun of your father or despise your mother in her old age,[a] you ought to be eaten by vultures or have your eyes picked out by wild ravens.

18 There are four things that are too mysterious for me to understand:

19 (A)an eagle flying in the sky,
a snake moving on a rock,
a ship finding its way over the sea,
and a man and a woman falling in love.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:17 One ancient translation mother in her old age; Hebrew mother's obedience.

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