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Proverbs 30:18
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There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:
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There be three [things which] are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
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“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand:
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There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yea, four which I know not:
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Proverbs 30
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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