Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Certainly I [am more] stupid than a man, and the understanding of humankind [is] not for me.
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.
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.
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, son of Yakeh, the oracle. Thus says the man to Ithiel, to Ithiel, and Ucal: 2 Certainly I [am more] stupid than a man, and the understanding of humankind [is] not for me. 3 And I have not learned wisdom, nor will I know knowledge of the Holy One.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 73:22
then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was [like] the beasts.
Job 42:3-6
'Who [is] this darkening counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I uttered, but I did not understand; {things too wonderful for me}, but I did not know.
Psalm 49:10
For he sees [that] the wise die, together [with the] fool and brute they perish, and leave their wealth to the next [generation].
Psalm 92:6
[The] brutish man does not know, and [the] fool cannot understand this.
Proverbs 5:12
and say "How I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!"
Isaiah 6:5
And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed! For I [am] a man {of unclean lips}, and I [am] living among a people {of unclean lips}, for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!"
Jeremiah 10:14
{Everyone} is stupid, {without knowledge}, every goldsmith is ashamed by [his] divine image, for his cast image [is] an illusion, and [there is] no breath in them.
Romans 11:25
For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you will not be wise {in your own sight}, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks [himself] to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, in order that he may become wise.
1 Corinthians 8:2
If anyone thinks he knows anything, he has not yet known as it is necessary to know.
James 1:5
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask for [it] from God, who gives to all without reservation and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.
2 Peter 2:12-16
But these persons, like irrational animals born [only with] natural [instincts] for capture and killing, blaspheming {about things} they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed,