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Proverbs 30:18
Proverbs 30:18 is verse 18 of Proverbs chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:
King James Version
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
World English Bible
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand:
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Proverbs 30:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’
17 As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
18 There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:
19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.
20 This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 42:3You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
Psalms 139:6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.