Proverbs 30:18
Good News Translation
There are four things that are too mysterious for me to understand:

New Revised Standard Version
Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand:

Contemporary English Version
There are three or four things I cannot understand:

New American Bible
Three things are too wonderful for me, yes, four I cannot understand:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly ignorant of.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Job 42:3 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my knowledge.

Psalm 139:6 Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.

Context
The Words of Agur
17The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it. 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.…
Cross References
Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.

Proverbs 30:19
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.

Proverbs 30:17
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