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Proverbs 30:2
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Surely I am more senseless than any man,And I do not have the understanding of mankind.
Surely I am more stupid than any man, And I do not have the understanding of a man.
Surely I am more foolishe then any man, and haue no mans vnderstandyng.
Truly *I* am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence.
Surely I am more stupid than any man, And do not have the understanding of a man.
Surely I am more brutish than anyone, and I do not have the understanding of a man.
I am stupid. I am not as smart as other people are.
"Surely I am the most ignorant man, And don't have a man's understanding.
Surely I am more brutish then any man, and haue not the vnderstanding of a man.
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
For though I am ye leest of all, & haue no mas vnderstodige
Surely I am more brutish and stupid than any man, And I do not have the understanding of a man [for I do not know what I do not know].
Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man;
For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man:
Surely I am more brutish than any man, And don't have the understanding of man;
Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.
Surely I am more brutish than any other human being, and I do not have human understanding;
I am far too stupid to be considered human.
I am more boorish than anyone, I lack human discernment;
Surely I am more foolish then any man, and haue not the vnderstanding of a man in me.
Surely, I am weak minded, and have not the understanding of men.
"Surely I am the most ignorant man, And don't have a man's understanding.
Surely I am brutish, unlike a man, and have not the understanding of a man;
For sure, I am more foolish than any man, and I do not have the understanding of a man.
By reason of the sins of ungodly men quarrels arise; but a wise man will quell them.
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man:
Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.
Surely I am too stupid to be human; I do not have human understanding.
Surely, more brutish, am, I, than any man, nor doth, the understanding of a son of earth, pertain to me;
I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.
Certainly I am more stupid than a man, and the understanding of humankind is not for me.
Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.
I am certainly more stupid than any man, And I do not have the understanding of a man;
"I am the most stupid person there is, and I have no understanding.
I am more like an animal than a human being; I do not have the sense we humans should have.
I am more stupid than any other man, and I lack man's ability to understand.
and seide, Y am the moost fool of men; and the wisdom of men is not with me.
Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.
For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I am: Job 42:3-6, Psalms 73:22, Isaiah 6:5, Romans 11:25, 1 Corinthians 3:18, 1 Corinthians 8:2, James 1:5
brutish: Proverbs 5:12, Psalms 92:6, Jeremiah 10:14, 2 Peter 2:12-16
Reciprocal: Job 11:12 - would Job 37:19 - we Psalms 49:10 - fool Psalms 73:16 - When Psalms 139:6 - knowledge Isaiah 19:11 - brutish Acts 8:31 - How Romans 7:14 - but Ephesians 3:8 - who am
Cross-References
So Sarai said to Abram, "The Lord has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her." And Abram agreed with Sarai's proposal.
For the Lord had caused all the women to be infertile because of what happened with Abraham's wife, Sarah.
Isaac pleaded with the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children. The Lord answered Isaac's prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant with twins.
When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to have children, but Rachel could not conceive.
Bilhah became pregnant and presented him with a son.
Rachel named him Dan, for she said, "God has vindicated me! He has heard my request and given me a son."
And Leah named him Asher, for she said, "What joy is mine! Now the other women will celebrate with me."
One day during the wheat harvest, Reuben found some mandrakes growing in a field and brought them to his mother, Leah. Rachel begged Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
Then Jacob became very angry, and he challenged Laban. "What's my crime?" he demanded. "What have I done wrong to make you chase after me as though I were a criminal?
But Joseph replied, "Don't be afraid of me. Am I God, that I can punish you?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Surely I am more brutish than [any] man,.... "Every man is [become] brutish in his knowledge"; man in his original state was a knowing creature but sinning lost his knowledge, and "became like the beasts that perish"; hence we read of the "brutish among the people": but Agur thought himself not only brutish among the rest, but more brutish than any. So Plato o says of some souls living on earth, that they are θηριωδεις, of a brutish nature; see Jeremiah 10:14. Or I think the words may be rendered, "a brute [am] I [rather] than a man" p; have more of the brute than of the man, especially in the sight and presence of God; a very beast before him, or in comparison of other wise, holy, and good men; or with respect to the knowledge of spiritual, divine, and heavenly things, Psalms 73:22; or "a brute [was] I from [the time]", or "[ever since I was] a man" q; as soon as be was born, being born in sin, and like a wild ass's colt, Job 11:12;
and have not the understanding of a man; or "of Adam" r; who was made after the image of God, which consisted in knowledge as well as holiness; who knew much of God, his nature, perfections, and persons; of the creatures, and the works of his hands and of all things in nature; but affecting more knowledge than he should lost in a great measure what he had, and brought his posterity in and left them in a state of blindness and ignorance, one of whose sons Agur was: or his meaning is, that he had not the understanding, as not of Adam in innocence, and of prophets and other eminent men of God, so not of ordinary men of those who had, he least share of the knowledge of divine things. Aben Ezra, who takes Ithiel and Ucal to be scholars or companions of Agur, supposes, that they asked him questions concerning the divine Being, nature, and perfections, to which he answers in this strain; showing his insufficiency to give them any instruction or satisfaction in such matters, or to discourse on such sublime subjects: or rather his view was to show the blindness and ignorance of human nature with respect to divine things he was about to treat of; and particularly to observe, that the knowledge of a Saviour, and salvation by him, were not from nature, and attainable by that; and that a man must first know himself, his own folly and ignorance, before he can have any true knowledge of Ithiel and Ucal, the mighty Saviour and Redeemer; of the need of him, and of interest in him. Some think his view is to prove that his words, his prophecy, or what he was about to say, or did say, must be owing entirely to divine inspiration; since he was of himself; and without a divine revelation, so very blind, dark, and ignorant; it could not be owing to any natural sagacity of his, who was more brutish than any; nor to any acquired knowledge, or the instruction of men, since he had none, as follows; and so כי, with which the words begin, may be rendered "for" or "because" s, as it usually is, "for I am more brutish, than any man", c.
o De Leg. l. 10. p, 959. p בער אנכי מאיש "bardus sum prae viro", Mercerus "brutus ego prae viro", Cocceius, Schultens. q "Nam brutus sum ex quo vir sum", Junius Tremellius, so Cartwright. r "Nec est mihi intelligentia Adami", Cartwright. s כי "nam", Junius Tremellius "quia", Pagninus, Montanus "quoniam", Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A confession of ignorance, with which compare the saying of Socrates that he was wise only so far as he knew that he knew nothing, or that of Asaph Psalms 73:22.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 30:2. Surely I am more brutish — These words can in no sense, nor by any mode of speech, be true of Solomon: for while he was the wisest of men, he could not have said that he was more brutish than any man, and had not the understanding of a man. It is saying nothing to the purpose, to say he was so independently of the Divine teaching. Had he put this in, even by innuendo, it might be legitimate: but he does not; nor is it by fair implication to be understood. Solomon is not supposed to have written the Proverbs after he fell from God. Then indeed he might have said he had been more brutish than any man. But Agur might have used these words with strict propriety, for aught we know; for it is very probable that he was a rustic, without education, and without any human help, as was the prophet Amos; and that all that he knew now was by the inspiration of the Almighty, independently of which he was rustic and uneducated.
