Proverbs 30:19
Good News Translation
an eagle flying in the sky, a snake moving on a rock, a ship finding its way over the sea, and a man and a woman falling in love.

New Revised Standard Version
the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a girl.

Contemporary English Version
How eagles fly so high or snakes crawl on rocks, how ships sail the ocean or people fall in love.

New American Bible
The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent upon a rock, The way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a woman.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man in youth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man in youth.

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Job 39:27 Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places?

Isaiah 40:31 But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

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Exodus 22:16 If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.

Context
The Words of Agur
18Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly ignorant of. 19The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man in youth.20Such also is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:49
The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand,

Proverbs 30:18
Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly ignorant of.

Jeremiah 48:40
Thus saith the Lord: Behold he shall fly as an eagle, and shall stretch forth his wings to Moab.

Jeremiah 49:22
Behold he shall come up as an eagle, and fly: and he shall spread his wings over Bosra: and in that day the heart of the valiant ones of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in labour.

Proverbs 30:18
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