<p class="poetry">Under three things the earth trembles,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and under four things it cannot bear up:p>

<p class="poetry">The righteous person is delivered<n id="1" /> out of trouble,p> <p class="poetry">and the wicked turns up in his stead.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The wicked become<n id="1" /> a ransom<n id="2" /> for the righteous,p> <p class="poetry">and the faithless<n id="3" /> are taken<n id="4" /> in the place of the upright.p>

<p class="poetry">Because<n id="1" /> they hated moral knowledge,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and did not choose to fear the <sc>Lord,sc><n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">As for the one who repays<n id="1" /> evil for good,p> <p class="poetry">evil will not leave<n id="2" /> his house.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">If you do not have enough to pay,p> <p class="poetry">your bed<n id="1" /> will be taken<n id="2" /> right out from under you!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">under a servant<n id="1" /> who becomes king,p> <p class="poetry">under a fool who is stuffed with food,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">under an unloved<n id="1" /> woman who is married,p> <p class="poetry">and under a female servant who dispossesses<n id="2" /> her mistress.p>