what does proverbs 30: 18,19 mean?

Answer 1

You have to include verse 20 and I read it to be a description of wonders by Agar, and a warning against self-righteousness and self-deception.

Answer 2

18 "There are three things that are too amazing for me,
four that I do not understand:

19 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 maiden.

It is the ramblings of a man named Agur, this same man said this: Proverbs 30: 2-3
2 "I am the most ignorant of men;
I do not have a man's understanding.

3 I have not learned wisdom,
nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.
So he admits he knows nothing, why listen to him at all?

Answer 3

These 2 verses are saying that God's creation is so wonderful to see and should be awed at. Yet they are complex and mankind will never come to a complete understanding of how it all works, how it all got here.

As we have already seen over the centuries, man has tried to understand God's creation. We have come up with many theories, have figured out a few things, as we are trying to become God by playing with cloning and making test tube babies. But these 2 verse plainly tell us that God and His works are ineffable, beyond our imagination, beyond our human comprehension to it's fullest.

Answer 4

Notes for Verses 18-20
Verses 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.

Answer 5

The soaring flight of the eagle, the mysterious movement upon a rock of the serpent which has no feet, the path of the ship through the trackless deep, and the marvelous procreation of human life, excite great wonderment.

Peace and blessings!

Answer 6

It is about an evil generation:

Proverbs 30:

11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

12There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

13There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

Answer 7

That somehow God had a son without the fun.

Answer 8

That's a sneaky way to get us to read the bible.