Proverbs 30:2
For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
In Context
1These things says the man to them that trust in God; and I cease.
3God has taught me wisdom, and I know the knowledge of the holy.
Cross References
Job 42:3For who is he that hides counsel from you? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from you? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?
Psalms 73:22Arise, O God, plead your cause: remember your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day. 1
Proverbs 5:12and you shall say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!
Jeremiah 10:14Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.
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 →