Proverbs 30:3

I learned not wisdom; and I knew not the knowing of holy men.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

In Context

2I am the most fool of men; and the wisdom of men is not with me. (I am the most foolish of men; and I have no common sense.)

4Who ascended into heaven, and came down (again)? Who held together the spirit in his hands? who bound together waters as in a cloth? (or Who held together the wind in his hands? who bound up the waters in a cloak?) Who raised (up) all the ends of [the] earth? What is the name of him? and what is the name of his son, if thou knowest?

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Cross References

Job 11:7In hap thou shalt comprehend the steps of God, and thou shalt find Almighty God unto perfection. (Perhaps thou shalt be able to comprehend the steps of God, and thou shalt discover the perfection of Almighty God!)

Isaiah 6:3And they cried the one to the tother, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts; all [the] earth is full of his glory.

Isaiah 30:11Do ye away from me the way, bow ye away from me the path; the Holy of Israel cease from our face. (Who say, Get ye out of my way, turn ye away from me on the path; make the Holy One of Israel to go away from us.)

Amos 7:14And Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, I am not a prophet, and I am not [the] son of a prophet; but an herder of neat I am, drawing up sycamores. (And Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, I am not a prophet, and I am not the son of a prophet; but I am a herdsman, and a gatherer of the figs of the sycamores.)

Matthew 16:17Jesus answered, and said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona; for flesh and blood showed not to thee, but my Father that is in heavens.

Romans 11:33O! the highness of the riches of the wisdom and of the cunning, (or the knowing, or the knowledge), of God [+or O! the depth of the riches of wisdom and cunning of God]; how incomprehensible be his dooms (or how incomprehensible be his judgements), and his ways be unsearchable.

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 →

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