Parallel Verses
King James 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.
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.
A Conservative Version
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man,
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, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 73:22
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
Job 42:3-6
Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Psalm 49:10
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psalm 92:6
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
Proverbs 5:12
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Isaiah 6:5
Then said I, 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 mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Romans 11:25
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 8:2
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
2 Peter 2:12-16
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;