Proverbs 30:24
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There are four very little things of the earth, and they are wiser than the wise.

little

Job 12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.

exceeding wise or wise or made wise

Context
The Words of Agur
23By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress. 24There are four very little things of the earth, and they are wiser than the wise.25The ants, a feeble people, which provide themselves food in the harvest:…
Cross References
Proverbs 6:6
Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,

Proverbs 30:23
By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.

Proverbs 30:25
The ants, a feeble people, which provide themselves food in the harvest:

Lexicon
Four
אַרְבָּ֣עָה (’ar·bā·‘āh)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 702: Four

things on earth
אָ֑רֶץ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

are small,
קְטַנֵּי־ (qə·ṭan·nê-)
Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 6996: Small, young, unimportant

yet they
הֵ֭ם (hêm)
Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1992: They

are exceedingly
מְחֻכָּמִֽים׃ (mə·ḥuk·kā·mîm)
Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2449: To be wise

wise:
חֲכָמִ֥ים (ḥă·ḵā·mîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2450: Wise


Additional Translations
Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:There be four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

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

And there are four very little things upon the earth, but these are wiser than the wise:

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

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

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

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

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