Proverbs 30:18

18 Three things are too wonderful for me, four that I can't figure out:

Proverbs 30:18 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 30:18

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.

Proverbs 30:18 In-Context

16 the grave and a barren womb, a land never filled with water, and fire that doesn't say, “Enough!”
17 An eye that mocks a father and rejects obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the river valley peck it out, and the eagle's young eat it.
18 Three things are too wonderful for me, four that I can't figure out:
19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on the rock, the way of a ship out on the open sea, and the way of a man with a young woman.
20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and she says, "I've done nothing wrong!"
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