Proverbs 30:18

Good News Translation

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Three things are too wondrous for me;four I can’t understand:

Hebrew Names Version
"There are three things which are too amazing for me, Four which I don't understand:

King James Version
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

English Standard Version
Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand:

New American Standard Bible
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Four which I do not understand:

New Century Version
"There are three things that are too hard for me, really four I don't understand:

Amplified Bible
There are three things which are too astounding and unexpectedly wonderful for me, Four which I do not understand:

World English Bible
"There are three things which are too amazing for me, Four which I don't understand:

Geneva Bible (1587)
There be three thinges hid from me: yea, foure that I knowe not,

Legacy Standard Bible
There are three things which are too wonderful for me,Four which I do not understand:

Berean Standard Bible
There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:

Contemporary English Version
There are three or four things I cannot understand:

Complete Jewish Bible
Three things are too wonderful for me, four beyond my knowledge —

Darby Translation
There are three [things] too wonderful for me, and four that I know not:

Easy-to-Read Version
There are three things that are hard for me to understand—really, four things that I don't understand:

George Lamsa Translation
There are three things that are hidden from me, yea, four which I do not know:

Lexham English Bible
Three of these are too wonderful for me, and four, I do not understand them:

Literal Translation
Three things are too wonderful for me; yea, I do not know the way of four:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There be thre thinges to hye for me, and as for the fourth, it passeth my knowlege.

American Standard Version
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not:

Bible in Basic English
There are three things, the wonder of which overcomes me, even four things outside my knowledge:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

King James Version (1611)
There be three things which are too wonderfull for me; yea foure, which I know not:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
There be three thynges whiche are wonderfull to me, yea foure whiche passe my vnderstandyng:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He that walks justly is assisted: but he that walks in crooked ways shall be entangled therein.

English Revised Version
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thre thingis ben hard to me, and outirli Y knowe not the fourthe thing;

Update Bible Version
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yes, four which I don't know:

Webster's Bible Translation
There are three [things which] are too wonderful for me, yes, four which I know not:

New English Translation
There are three things that are too wonderful for me, four that I do not understand:

New King James Version
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yes, four which I do not understand:

New Living Translation
There are three things that amaze me— no, four things that I don't understand:

New Life Bible
There are three things which are too great for me, four which I do not understand:

New Revised Standard
Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Three, things there are, too difficult for me, yea, four, which I do not understand:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly ignorant of.

Revised Standard Version
Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand:

Young's Literal Translation
Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known:

THE MESSAGE
Three things amaze me, no, four things I'll never understand— how an eagle flies so high in the sky, how a snake glides over a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, why adolescents act the way they do.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Four which I do not understand:

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ There are four things that are too mysterious for me to understand: ¹⁹ 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. ²⁰ This is how an unfaithful wife acts: she commits adultery, takes a bath, and says, "But I haven't done anything wrong!" ²¹ There are four things that the earth itself cannot tolerate: ²² a slave who becomes a king, a fool who has all he wants to eat, ²³ a hateful woman who gets married, and a servant woman who takes the place of her mistress.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

too: Job 42:3, Psalms 139:6

Reciprocal: Proverbs 6:16 - six Micah 5:5 - seven

Cross-References

Genesis 30:14
During the wheat harvest Reuben went into the fields and found mandrakes, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

Genesis 30:15
Leah answered, "Isn't it enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you are even trying to take away my son's mandrakes." Rachel said, "If you will give me your son's mandrakes, you can sleep with Jacob tonight."

Genesis 35:23
The sons of Leah were Reuben (Jacob's oldest son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

Genesis 46:13
Issachar and his sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.

Deuteronomy 33:18
About the tribes of Zebulun and Issachar he said: "May Zebulun be prosperous in their trade on the sea, And may Issachar's wealth increase at home.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There be three [things which] are too wonderful for me,.... Which were above his reach and comprehension; what he could not find out, nor account for, nor sufficiently admire;

yea, four things which I know not; the way of them; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Another enigma. The four things of Proverbs 30:16 agreed in the common point of insatiableness; the four now mentioned agree in this, that they leave no trace behind them.

Proverbs 30:19

The way of a man with a maid - The act of sin leaves no outward mark upon the sinners.