Proverbs 30:4
Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? who has gathered the winds in his * bosom? who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? what is his name? or what is the name of his children?
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
3God has taught me wisdom, and I know the knowledge of the holy.
5For all the words of God are tried in the fire, and he defends those that reverence him.
Cross References
Genesis 32:29And he said to him, Thy name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; for thou hast prevailed with God, and shalt be mighty with men.
Exodus 6:3And I appeared to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, being their God, but I did not manifest to them my name Lord.
Deuteronomy 28:58If thou wilt not hearken to do all the words of this law, which have been written in this book, to fear this glorious and wonderful name, the Lord thy God;
Judges 13:18And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why dost thou thus ask after my name; whereas it is wonderful?
Job 11:8Heaven is high; and what wilt thou do? 1 And there are deeper things than those in hell; what dost thou know? 1
Job 38:4Where wast thou when I founded the earth? 1 Tell me now, if thou hast knowledge, 1
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 →