Proverbs 30:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Surely I am too stupid to be human; I do not have human understanding.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Surely I am too brutish and stupid to be called a man, and I have not the understanding of a man [for all my secular learning is as nothing].

American Standard Version (1901)

Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man;

Common English Bible

Actually, I’m too stupid to be human, a man without understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

"I am the most foolish among men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.

Proverbs 30:2 Cross References

Psalm 49:10

When we look at the wise, they die; fool and dolt perish together and leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and ignorant; I was like a brute beast toward you.

Psalm 92:6

The dullard cannot know; the stupid cannot understand this:

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but those who hate to be rebuked are stupid.

Proverbs 30:1

The words of Agur son of Jakeh. An oracle. Thus says the man: I am weary, O God; I am weary, O God, and am wasting away.

Proverbs 5:12

and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Isaiah 6:5

And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is stupid and without knowledge; goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols, for their images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Romans 11:25

I want you to understand this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not claim to be wiser than you are: a hardening has come upon part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles has come in.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.

1 Corinthians 8:2

Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge,

James 1:5

If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.