Proverbs 30:2
For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.
Young's Literal Translation
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 the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.
Cross References
Job 42:3'Who [is] this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.
Psalms 73:22And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.
Proverbs 5:12And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
Jeremiah 10:14Brutish is every man by knowledge, Put to shame is every refiner by a graven image, For false [is] his molten image. And there is no breath in them.
1 Corinthians 3:18Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem 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 do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall 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 →