Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Four things are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

New American Standard Bible

Four things are small on the earth,
But they are exceedingly wise:

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Four things on earth are small,
yet they are extremely wise:

International Standard Version

Four things on earth are small, but they are very, very wise:

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


There are four things that are small on the earth,
But they are exceedingly wise:

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

They four the small of the earth, and they are wise, being made wise:

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

There [are] four small things on the earth, and they [are] {exceedingly wise}:

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

There be four things in the earth, the which are very little: but in wisdom they exceed the wise.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

"There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

The Emphasized Bible

Four, things there are, the small of the earth, - yet, they, are wiser than the wise:

Webster

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

World English Bible

"There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
There be four
ארבּעה ארבּע 
'arba` 
Usage: 318

upon the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

חכם 
Chakam 
Usage: 27

References

American

Ant

Easton

Context Readings

Four Things That Are Small - Yet Smart And Strong

23 for a hateful woman when she is married; and a servant girl that is heir to her mistress. 24 Four things are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise: 25 the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;

Cross References

Job 12:7

But now ask the animals, and they shall teach you; and the birds of the air, and they shall tell you;

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