Proverbs 30:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

Proverbs 30:18 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 42:3
Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Psalms 139:6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

Topics

Adultery Commandments Concupiscence Copulation Crime Fornication Harlot (prostitute)Harlotry

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-23)

Here is, I. An account of four things that are unsearchable, too wonderful to be fully known. And here, 1. The first three are natural things, and are only designed as comparisons for the illustration of the last. We cannot trace, (1.) An eagle in the air. Which way she has flown cannot be discovered either by the footstep or by the scent, as the way of a beast may upon ground; nor can we account…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18-20. Hypocrisy is illustrated by four examples of the concealment of all methods or traces of action, and a pertinent example of double dealing in actual vice is added, that is, the adulterous woman.