Proverbs 30:24 New English Translation

²⁴There are four things on earth that are small,^[a]
but they are exceedingly wise:^[b]

Proverbs 30:24 tn Heb “Four are the small things of the earth.” TEV has “four animals,” though in the list of four that follows, two are insects and one is a reptile.
Proverbs 30:24 tn The construction uses the Pual participle with the plural adjective as an intensive; these four creatures are the very embodiment of wisdom (BDB 314 s.v. חָכַם Pu).

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