Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man,
New American Standard Bible
And I do not have the understanding of a man.
King James Version
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
Holman Bible
and I lack man’s ability to understand.
International Standard Version
Surely I am beyond the senselessness of any man; I do not perceive things the way human beings do.
American Standard Version
Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man;
Amplified
Surely
And I do not have the understanding of a man [for I do not know what I do not know].
Bible in Basic English
For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man:
Darby Translation
Truly I am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence.
Julia Smith Translation
For I am brutish more than man, and not the understanding of a man to me.
King James 2000
Surely I am more senseless than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Certainly I [am more] stupid than a man, and the understanding of humankind [is] not for me.
Modern King James verseion
Surely I am more like an animal than any man, and do not have the understanding of a man.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For though I am the least of all, and have no man's understanding
NET Bible
Surely I am more brutish than any other human being, and I do not have human understanding;
New Heart English Bible
"Surely I am the most ignorant man, and do not have a man's understanding.
The Emphasized Bible
Surely, more brutish, am, I, than any man, nor doth, the understanding of a son of earth, pertain to me;
Webster
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
World English Bible
"Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding.
Youngs Literal Translation
For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 30:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Oracle Of Agur
1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle. The man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal: 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man, 3 and I have not learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 73:22
So I was brutish, and ignorant. I was a beast before thee.
Job 42:3-6
Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Psalm 49:10
For he shall see it. Wise men die. The fool and the brutish alike perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psalm 92:6
A brutish man knows not, nor does a fool understand this.
Proverbs 5:12
and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
Isaiah 6:5
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, LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Romans 11:25
For I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise according to yourselves, that a callousness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.
1 Corinthians 8:2
If any man presumes to know anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
James 1:5
And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God who gives to all generously and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.
2 Peter 2:12-16
But these men, like irrational beasts of nature, having been born for capture and destruction, speaking evil at which things they do not understand, will be destroyed in their corruption,