Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Truly I am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence.
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:
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 prophecy uttered by the man unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal: 2 Truly I am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence. 3 I have neither learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 73:22
Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee.
Job 42:3-6
Who is he that obscureth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered what I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Psalm 49:10
For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.
Psalm 92:6
A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.
Proverbs 5:12
and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
Isaiah 6:5
And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for 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, Jehovah of hosts.
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Romans 11:25
For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in;
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 8:2
If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it.
James 1:5
But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him:
2 Peter 2:12-16
But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption,