Catholic Public Domain Version
"By three things, the earth is moved, and a fourth it is not able to sustain: "
— Proverbs 30:21, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:”
“ For three things the earth doth tremble, And for four, whichit cannot bear: ”
“"For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can't bear up:”
“Under three things the earth has trembled, and under four things it cannot bear up:”
“By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear.”
“For three things the earth is moved, and there are four which it will not put up with:”
“For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:”
Three things are difficult for me, and about a fourth, I am nearly ignorant:
the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the sea, and the way of a man in adolescence.
Such is the way also of an adulterous woman, who eats, and wiping her mouth, says: “I have done no evil.”
By three things, the earth is moved, and a fourth it is not able to sustain:
by a slave when he reigns, by the foolish when he has been filled with food,
by a hateful woman when she has been taken in matrimony, and by a handmaid when she has been heir to her mistress.
Four things are least upon the earth, and they are wiser than the wise: