The Words of Agur

Proverbs 30:18

In 10 translations

BSB: There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:
KJV: There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
WEB: “There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand:
ASV: There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not:
LSV: Three things have been too wonderful for me, || Indeed, four that I have not known:
YLT: Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known:
DBY: There are three [things] too wonderful for me, and four that I know not:
DRC: Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly ignorant of.
GNV: There be three thinges hid from me: yea, foure that I knowe not,
JPS: There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)

Leningrad Codex reads וְ֝אַרְבָּעָ֗; read aloud (Qere) reads וְ֝אַרְבָּעָ֗ה (“and four [things]”).
Written (Ketiv): וְאַרְבָּע. Read aloud (Qere): וְ֝אַרְבָּעָ֗ה (“and four [things]”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC: שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה הֵ֭מָּה נִפְלְא֣וּ מִמֶּ֑נִּי וארבע לֹ֣א יְדַעְתִּֽים׃Read aloud as (qere): וְ֝אַרְבָּעָ֗ה

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Agur Massa Riddle Serpent Zoology Lasciviousness Ships Four Adultery Number

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

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.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).