PRO 30:24 Parallel Verse View

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ULT Four things, they are small things of the earth
⇔ but they are wise things being made wise:

UST There are four creatures in the world that are small
⇔ but extremely wise:

OEB Of the small things of earth there are four.
⇔ and wiser they are than the wisest.

WEBBE ⇔ “There are four things which are little on the earth,
⇔ but they are exceedingly wise:

WMBB (Same as above)

NET There are four things on earth that are small,
⇔ but they are exceedingly wise:

LSV Four [are] little ones of earth,
And they are made wiser than the wise:

FBV There are four things on earth that are small, but very wise:

T4T ⇔ There are four animals on the earth that are small, but they are very wise:

LEB • are four small things on the earth, and they are[fn]

30:? Literally “wise ones from wise ones ”

BBE There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are very wise:

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JPS There are four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

ASV ⇔ There are four things which are little upon the earth,
⇔ But they are exceeding wise:

DRA There are four very little things of the earth, and they are wiser than the wise:

YLT Four [are] little ones of earth, And they are made wiser than the wise:

Drby There are four [things] little upon the earth, and they are exceeding wise:

RV There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

Wbstr There are four things which are little upon the earth, but they are very wise:

KJB-1769 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:[fn]

30.24 exceeding…: Heb. wise, made wise

KJB-1611 [fn]There be foure things which are little vpon the earth; but they are exceeding wise:
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

30:24 Heb. wise made wise.

Bshps These be foure thynges in the earth the which are very litle, but in wisdome they exceede the wyse:
(These be four things in the earth the which are very little, but in wisdom they exceede the wyse:)

Gnva These be foure small things in the earth, yet they are wise and full of wisedome:
(These be four small things in the earth, yet they are wise and full of wisdom: )

Cvdl There be foure thinges in the earth, the which are very litle: but in wy?dome they exceade the wyse.
(There be four things in the earth, the which are very little: but in wisdom they exceed the wyse.)

Wycl Foure ben the leeste thingis of erthe, and tho ben wisere than wise men;
(Foure been the leaste things of earth, and those been wisere than wise men;)

Luth Vier sind klein auf Erden und klüger denn die Weisen:
(Vier are klein on earthn and klüger because the Weisen:)

ClVg [Quatuor sunt minima terræ, et ipsa sunt sapientiora sapientibus:[fn]
([Quatuor are minima terræ, and herself are sapientiora sapientibus: )

30.24 Quatuor: scilicet minores videntur justi in terra, quam reprobi, id est abjectiores; sed tamen sapientiores sunt sapientibus mundi, quia æterna quærunt, et pro his pati desiderant.

30.24 Quatuor: scilicet minores videntur justi in terra, how reprobi, id it_is abyectiores; but tamen sapientiores are sapientibus mundi, because æterna quærunt, and for his pati desiderant.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

30:24–28 is the fifth 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 / possession

קְטַנֵּי־אָ֑רֶץ

small earth

Here Agur is using the possessive form to describe small things that exist on the earth. If your language would not use the possessive form for this, you could use a different expression. Alternate translation: “are smalls things that exist on the earth”

Note 2 topic: writing-poetry

חֲכָמִ֥ים מְחֻכָּמִֽים

wise_ones ones_being_made_wise

Here, wise things, being made wise is an emphatic construction that uses a verb and its object that come from the same root. You may be able to use the same construction in your language to express the meaning here. Alternatively, your language may have another way of showing the emphasis.

Parallel PRO 30:24