Proverbs 30:2

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Surely I am more ignorant than anyone, and I lack human understanding.

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  • Ps 73:22 : 22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 How great are Your works, O LORD! How profound are Your thoughts!
  • Prov 5:12 : 12 You will say, 'How I hated discipline, and my heart despised correction!'
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I said, "Woe to me! For I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts."
  • Jer 10:14 : 14 Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by their idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not become conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no one deceive themselves. If anyone among you thinks they are wise in this age, let them become foolish so that they may become wise.
  • 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 If anyone thinks they know something, they do not yet know as they ought to know.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without rebuke, and it will be given to him.
  • 2 Pet 2:12-16 : 12 These people, however, are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed. They speak abusively about things they do not understand, and in their destruction, they too will be destroyed. 13 They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to indulge in carousing during the day. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you. 14 They have eyes full of adultery, never ceasing from sin. They entice unstable souls and have hearts trained in greed. They are accursed children. 15 They have abandoned the straight way and gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. 16 But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—a beast without speech—that spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness.
  • Job 42:3-6 : 3 You asked, 'Who is this that obscures counsel without knowledge?' Surely, I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. 4 You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.' 5 My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You. 6 Therefore, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.
  • Ps 49:10 : 10 that he should live on forever and not see the pit of decay.

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