Proverbs 30:18

New Living Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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:

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:

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 —

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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:

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

Christian Standard Bible®
Three things are beyond me; four I can't understand:

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

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:

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ There are three things that amaze me— no, four things that I don't understand: ¹⁹ how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman. ²⁰ An adulterous woman consumes a man, then wipes her mouth and says, "What's wrong with that?" ²¹ There are three things that make the earth tremble— no, four it cannot endure: ²² a slave who becomes a king, an overbearing fool who prospers, ²³ a bitter woman who finally gets a husband, a servant girl who supplants 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
One day during the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes growing in a field and brought them to his mother, Leah. Rachel begged Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

Genesis 30:15
But Leah angrily replied, "Wasn't it enough that you stole my husband? Now will you steal my son's mandrakes, too?" Rachel answered, "I will let Jacob sleep with you tonight if you give me some of the mandrakes."

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

Genesis 46:13
The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.

Deuteronomy 33:18
Moses said this about the tribes of Zebulun and Issachar: "May the people of Zebulun prosper in their travels. May the people of Issachar prosper at home in their tents.

1 Chronicles 12:32
From the tribe of Issachar, there were 200 leaders of the tribe with their relatives. All these men understood the signs of the times and knew the best course for Israel to take.

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.