Proverbs 30:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man:

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  • Ps 73:22 : 22 As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.
  • Prov 5:12 : 12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.
  • Jer 10:14 : 14 Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
  • 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.
  • 2 Pet 2:12-16 : 12 But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others; 13 For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy; 14 Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy; 15 Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing; 16 But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet.
  • Job 42:3-6 : 3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out. 4 Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers. 5 Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you. 6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
  • Ps 49:10 : 10 For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 30:1
    82%

    1The words of Agur, the son of Jakeh, from Massa. The man says: I am full of weariness, O God, I am full of weariness; O God, I have come to an end:

  • Prov 30:3
    78%

    3I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One.

  • Ps 73:22
    75%

    22As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

  • Ps 92:6
    75%

    6A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.

  • Job 12:3
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    3But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

  • Job 42:3
    72%

    3Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

  • Prov 30:18
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    18There are three things, the wonder of which overcomes me, even four things outside my knowledge:

  • Prov 7:7
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    7I saw among the young men one without sense,

  • Ps 38:13-14
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    13But I kept my ears shut like a man without hearing; like a man without a voice, never opening his mouth.

    14So I was like a man whose ears are shut, and in whose mouth there are no sharp words.

  • Job 32:9
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    9It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

  • Eccl 3:18
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    18I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

  • Job 6:13
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    13I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

  • Ps 49:20
    68%

    20Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • Prov 18:2
    68%

    2A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

  • Job 39:17
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    17That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,

  • Prov 26:12
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    12Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.

  • Job 28:12
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    12But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

  • Deut 32:28
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    28For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

  • Job 28:20
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    20From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

  • Eccl 7:23
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    23All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

  • Ps 73:16
    67%

    16When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;

  • Job 34:34-35
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    67%

    34Men of knowledge, and all wise men, hearing me, will say,

    35Job's words do not come from knowledge; they are not the fruit of wisdom.

  • Jer 51:17
    67%

    17Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

  • Eccl 7:25
    67%

    25I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

  • Eccl 1:16-17
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    67%

    16I said to my heart, See, I have become great and am increased in wisdom more than any who were before me in Jerusalem--yes, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.

    17And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

  • Eccl 2:15
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    15Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.

  • Job 11:12
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    12And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

  • Jer 10:14
    67%

    14Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

  • Job 15:9
    67%

    9What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

  • Jer 10:8
    67%

    8But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

  • Job 17:10
    67%

    10But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.

  • Lam 3:1
    67%

    1I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

  • Job 6:24
    67%

    24Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.

  • Ps 139:6
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    6Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.

  • Job 13:2
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    2The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.

  • Prov 8:14
    66%

    14Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.

  • Job 28:28
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    28And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.

  • Job 18:3
    66%

    3Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

  • Job 38:2
    66%

    2Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

  • Job 15:17
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    17Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:

  • Prov 17:18
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    18A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.

  • Prov 29:20
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    20Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him.

  • Jer 4:22
    66%

    22For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

  • Ps 53:1
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