Proverbs 30:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² 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)

² Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man;

Common English Bible

² Actually, I’m too stupid to be human, a man without understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² "I am the most foolish among men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.

Proverbs 30:2 Cross References

Psalm 49:10

Yea, he shall see that even the wise die, the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward thee.

Psalm 92:6

The dull man cannot know, the stupid cannot understand this:

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Proverbs 30:1

The words of Agur son of Jakeh of Massa. The man says to Ithi-el, to Ithi-el and Ucal:

Proverbs 5:12

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

Isaiah 6:5

And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Jeremiah 10:14

Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Romans 11:25

Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brethren: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in,

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 8:2

If any one imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.