Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
"Surely I am the most ignorant man, and do not have a man's understanding.
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.
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;
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 the most ignorant man, and do not have a man's understanding. 3 I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 73:22
I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
Job 42:3-6
You asked, '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 sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psalm 92:6
A senseless man doesn't know, neither 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, the LORD of hosts."
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Romans 11:25
For I do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
1 Corinthians 3:18
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.
1 Corinthians 8:2
But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
James 1:5
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.
2 Peter 2:12-16
But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,