Proverbs 30:18

World English Bible (2000)

"There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don't understand:

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 42:3 : 3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

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  • 29 "There are three things which are stately in their march, four which are stately in going:

  • 21 "For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can't bear up:

  • 19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.

  • 24 "There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

  • Job 42:3-4
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    3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

    4 You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

  • 6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

  • 7 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it.

  • Job 9:10-11
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    10 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.

    11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

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    15 "The leach has two daughters: 'Give, give.' "There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don't say, 'Enough:'

    16 Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'

    17 "The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

  • Prov 30:2-3
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    2 "Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding.

    3 I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

  • Eccl 7:24-25
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    24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

    25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

  • 16 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

  • 9 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

  • 12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

  • 11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

  • 17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

  • Job 28:20-21
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    20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

    21 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.

  • 4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

  • 4 Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?

  • 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

  • 9 who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

  • 4 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

  • 15 That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.

  • 5 God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can't comprehend.

  • 32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

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    8 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

  • 16 Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

  • 18 I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

  • 20 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

  • 23 "God understands its way, and he knows its place.

  • 4 as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

  • 12 "Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.

  • 8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

  • 13 "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

  • 6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

  • 7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

  • 5 As you don't know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don't know the work of God who does all.

  • 14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

  • 2 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

  • 17 "I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare:

  • 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

  • 7 "Two things I have asked of you; don't deny me before I die:

  • 14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"