Proverbs 30:2
“Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a common man.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
In Context
3Nor have I learned wisdom, so that I should have knowledge of the Holy One.
Cross References
Job 42:3Who is he that dareth to conceal [thy] counsel without knowledge? Truly I have spoken of what I understood not, of things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Psalms 73:22But I was indeed foolish, and I knew it not: I was as a [thoughtless] beast with thee.
Proverbs 5:12And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof;
Jeremiah 10:14Then standeth every man as brutish without knowledge; ashamed is every goldsmith because of the graven image; for falsehood is his molten work, and there is no breath therein.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:2-7
The Words of Agur. 1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. 4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst… Read the whole commentary →