KJV King James Version
Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.
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Proverbs 30:2
Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.
WEB World English Bible
“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.
ASV American Standard Version
Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 30
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 tell?
5 Every word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
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Psalm 73:22So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.Proverbs 5:12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;1 Corinthians 3:18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.1 Corinthians 8:2And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.Isaiah 6:5Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.Jeremiah 10:14Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.Romans 11:25For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.Psalm 92:6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.James 1:5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.Job 42:3-6Who [is] he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.Psalm 49:10For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.2 Peter 2:12-16But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
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