PRO 30:18 Parallel Verse View

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30:18 Variant note: ו/ארבע: (x-qere) ’וְ֝/אַרְבָּעָ֗ה’: lemma_c/702 n_0.0 morph_HC/Acmsa id_20XRp וְ֝/אַרְבָּעָ֗ה

Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT Three things, they are too wonderful for me,
⇔ and four, I do not understand them:

BSB § There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:

OEB Three things are too wonderful for me –
⇔ four are beyond my knowledge:

WEBBE ⇔ “There are three things which are too amazing for me,
⇔ four which I don’t understand:

WMBB (Same as above)

NET There are three things that are too wonderful for me,
⇔ four that I do not understand:

LSV Three things have been too wonderful for me,
Indeed, four that I have not known:

FBV These three things are amazingly hard for me, four things I just can't understand:

T4T ⇔ There are four things that are wonderful to me,
⇔ but I do not understand any of them:

LEB • too wonderful for me, and four, I do not understand them:

BBE There are three things, the wonder of which overcomes me, even four things outside my knowledge:

Moff No Moff PRO book available

JPS There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

ASV ⇔ There are three things which are too wonderful for me,
⇔ Yea, four which I know not:

DRA Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly ignorant of.

YLT Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known:

Drby There are three [things] too wonderful for me, and four that I know not:

RV There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

Wbstr There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yes, four which I know not:

KJB-1769 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

KJB-1611 There be three things which are too wonderfull for me; yea foure, which I know not:
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps There be three thynges whiche are wonderfull to me, yea foure whiche passe my vnderstandyng:
(There be three things which are wonderful to me, yea four which pass my understanding:)

Gnva There be three thinges hid from me: yea, foure that I knowe not,
(There be three things hid from me: yea, four that I know not, )

Cvdl There be thre thinges to hye for me, and as for the fourth, it passeth my knowlege.
(There be three things to high for me, and as for the fourth, it passeth my knowledge.)

Wycl Thre thingis ben hard to me, and outirli Y knowe not the fourthe thing;
(Thre things been hard to me, and outirli I know not the fourthe thing;)

Luth Drei Dinge sind mir zu wunderlich, und das vierte weiß ich nicht:
(Drei things are to_me to wunderlich, and the fourth know I nicht:)

ClVg [Tria sunt difficilia mihi, et quartum penitus ignoro:[fn]
([Tria are difficilia mihi, and quartum penitus ignoro: )

30.18 Tria sunt mihi difficilia. Ita est ad litteram, etc., usque ad difficile est scire quot cogitationibus juvenis agitur, qui viam veritatis deservit.

30.18 Tria are to_me difficilia. Ita it_is to litteram, etc., until to difficile it_is scire quot cogitationibus yuvenis agitur, who road veritatis deservit.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

30:18–19 is the third of six numerical sayings in this chapter. See the discussion of numerical sayings in the General Notes for this chapter.

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה הֵ֭מָּה נִפְלְא֣וּ מִמֶּ֑⁠נִּי וְ֝אַרְבָּעָ֗ה

three they(emph) wonderful too_~_for,me (Some words not found in UHB: three they(emph) wonderful too_~_for,me and,four not understand,them )

To make a comprehensive statement, Agur is using a rhetorical device in which the speaker names a number that should be sufficient to illustrate his point and then increases that number by one for emphasis. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. See how you translated the similar use of Three things and four in 30:15. Alternate translation: “These four things are absolutely too wonderful for me”

Parallel PRO 30:18