For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Proverbs 30:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) *Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
The words of Agur the son of Yakeh, the oracle: the man says to 'Iti'el, to 'Iti'el and Ucal:
and say, *How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Then I said, *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 my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies!*
Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
For I don't desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Yisra'el, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.