Proverbs 30:2
For I am more brutish than anyone, || And do not have the understanding of a man.
Literal Standard Version
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, || Yet I know the knowledge of the Holy Ones.
Cross References
Job 42:3[You said], Who [is] this hiding counsel without knowledge? Therefore, I have declared, and do not understand, || Too wonderful for me, and I do not know.
Psalms 73:22And I am brutish, and do not know. I have been a beast with You.
Proverbs 5:12And have said, “How I have hated instruction, || And my heart has despised reproof,
Jeremiah 10:14Every man is brutish by knowledge, || Every refiner is put to shame by a carved image, || For his molten image [is] false. And there is no breath in them.
1 Corinthians 3:18Let no one deceive himself; if anyone seems to be wise among you in this age—let him become a fool, that he may become wise,
James 1:5And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all generously, and not reproaching, and it will be given to him;
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 →