Proverbs 30:2
Truly I am more stupid than any man; There is not in me the understanding of a man.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
In Context
3I have not learned wisdom, Nor have I gained the knowledge of the Most Holy.
Cross References
Job 42:3Who is he that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Thus have I uttered what I understood not; Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not:
Psalms 73:22Then was I stupid and without understanding; I was like one of the brutes before thee.
Proverbs 5:12And say, “How have I hated instruction! And how hath my heart despised reproof!
Jeremiah 10:14Brutish is every one who hath not this knowledge; By his image is every founder put to shame, For his molten-work is deceit; There is no breath in it.
1 Corinthians 3:18Let no one deceive himself; if any one thinketh himself wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
James 1:5But if any one of you is wanting in wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it will be given 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 →