Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

There be three things too high for me, and as for the fourth, it passeth my knowledge.

New American Standard Bible

There are three things which are too wonderful for me,
Four which I do not understand:

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Three things are beyond me;
four I can’t understand:

International Standard Version

Three things cause wonder for me; four are beyond my understanding:

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


There are three things which are too astounding and unexpectedly wonderful for me,
Four which I do not understand:

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

They three were wonderful above me; and four, I knew them not:

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Three of these are [too] wonderful for me, and four, I do not understand them:

Modern King James verseion

Three things are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I do not know:

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

"There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I do not understand:

The Emphasized Bible

Three, things there are, too difficult for me, yea, four, which I do not understand:

Webster

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

World English Bible

"There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don't understand:

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁלשׁה שׁלושׁה שׁלשׁ שׁלושׁ 
Shalowsh 
Usage: 430

for me, yea, four
ארבּעה ארבּע 
'arba` 
Usage: 318

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Four Things Of Intrigue

17 Whoso laugheth his father to scorn, and setteth his mother's commandment at naught; the ravens pick out his eyes in the valley, and devoured be he of the young Eagles. 18 There be three things too high for me, and as for the fourth, it passeth my knowledge. 19 The way of an Eagle in the air, the way of a serpent over a stone, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman.

Cross References

Job 42:3

For who can keep his own counsel so secret, but it shall be known? Therefore have I spoken unwisely, seeing these things are so high, and pass mine understanding.

Psalm 139:6

Such knowledge is too wonderful and excellent for me; I cannot attain unto it.

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