Proverbs 30:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 9:10 : 10 The fear of the Lord is the start of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One gives a wise mind
  • Isa 6:3 : 3 And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.
  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
  • Isa 30:11 : 11 Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
  • Amos 7:14-15 : 14 Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees: 15 And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.
  • Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been given to me by my Father; and no one has knowledge of the Son, but the Father; and no one has knowledge of the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.
  • Matt 16:17 : 17 And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.
  • John 17:3 : 3 And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.
  • Eph 3:18-19 : 18 May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is, 19 And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.
  • Rev 4:8 : 8 And the four beasts, having every one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and inside: and without resting day and night, they say, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, Ruler of all, who was and is and is to come.
  • Job 11:7-9 : 7 Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all? 8 They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge; 9 Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

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  • Job 42:3
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    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.

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

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

  • Job 28:12-14
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    13 Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

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  • Job 15:8-9
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    9 What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

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

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

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

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

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

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    16 I 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.

    17 And 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.

    18 Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.

  • Eccl 7:23-25
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    23 All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

    24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

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

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    22 For 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.

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    32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

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    22 Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.