Proverbs 30:18 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 30. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 30:18

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 30:18-23: 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.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 30:18: There be three things which are too wonderful for me,.... Which were above his reach and comprehension; what he could not find out, nor account for, nor sufficiently admire; yea, four things which I know not; the way of them; as follows.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 30:18: 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.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 30:18-20: Pro 30:18-20 The following proverb, again a numerical proverb, begins with the eagle, mentioned in the last line of the foregoing: 18 Three things lie beyond me, And four I understand not: 19 The way of the eagle in the heavens, The way of a serpent over a rock, The way of a ship on the high sea, And the way of a man with a maid.