Proverbs 30:18
Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand:
In context
15 The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough”: 16 Sheol, the barren womb, the land never satisfied with water, and the fire that never says, “Enough.”
17 The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
18 Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: 19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.
20 This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”
21 Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up:
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- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 30:18 in the KJV
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not:
- NIV New International Version
— Proverbs 30:18 in the NIV
“There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: