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Saturday, August 2nd, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Brenton's Septuagint
Proverbs 30:18
He that walks justly is assisted: but he that walks in crooked ways shall be entangled therein.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Three things are too wondrous for me;four I can’t understand:
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:
"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:
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:
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:
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:
"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:
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:
"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,
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:
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:
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:
There are three or four things I cannot understand:
Complete Jewish Bible
Three things are too wonderful for me, four beyond my knowledge —
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:
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:
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:
There are three things that are hidden from me, yea, four which I do not know:
Good News Translation
There are four things that are too mysterious for me to understand:
There are four things that are too mysterious for me to understand:
Lexham English Bible
Three of these are too wonderful for me, and four, I do not understand them:
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:
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.
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
There be three thynges whiche are wonderfull to me, yea foure whiche passe my vnderstandyng:
English Revised Version
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
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;
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
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:
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:
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.
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:
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Four which I do not understand:
Contextual Overview
18 He that walks justly is assisted: but he that walks in crooked ways shall be entangled therein. 19 He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows idleness shall have plenty of poverty. 20 A man worthy of credit shall be much blessed: but the wicked shall not be unpunished. 21 He that reverences not the persons of the just is not good: such a one will sell a man for a morsel of bread. 22 An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him. 23 He that reproves a man’s ways shall have more favour than he that flatters with the tongue.
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
And Ruben went in the day of barley-harvest, and found apples of mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Lea; and Rachel said to Lea her sister, Give me of thy son’s mandrakes.
And Ruben went in the day of barley-harvest, and found apples of mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Lea; and Rachel said to Lea her sister, Give me of thy son’s mandrakes.
Genesis 30:15
And Lea said, Is it not enough for thee that thou hast taken my husband, wilt thou also take my son’s mandrakes? And Rachel said, Not so: let him lie with thee to-night for thy son’s mandrakes.
And Lea said, Is it not enough for thee that thou hast taken my husband, wilt thou also take my son’s mandrakes? And Rachel said, Not so: let him lie with thee to-night for thy son’s mandrakes.
Genesis 35:23
The sons of Lea, the first-born of Jacob; Ruben, Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Zabulon.
The sons of Lea, the first-born of Jacob; Ruben, Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Zabulon.
Genesis 46:13
And the sons of Phares were Esron, and Jemuel. And the sons of Issachar; Thola, and Phua, and Asum, and Sambran.
And the sons of Phares were Esron, and Jemuel. And the sons of Issachar; Thola, and Phua, and Asum, and Sambran.
Deuteronomy 33:18
And to Zabulon he said, Rejoice, Zabulon, in thy going out, and Issachar in his tents.
And to Zabulon he said, Rejoice, Zabulon, in thy going out, and Issachar in his tents.
1 Chronicles 12:32
And of the sons of Issachar having wisdom with regard to the times, knowing what Israel should do, two hundred; and all their brethren with them.
And of the sons of Issachar having wisdom with regard to the times, knowing what Israel should do, two hundred; and all their brethren with them.
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.
