Proverbs 30:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.

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  • Ps 73:22 : 22 So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
  • Prov 5:12 : 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 ¶ Then said I, 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 mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
  • Jer 10:14 : 14 Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 ¶ Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
  • 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
  • 2 Pet 2:12-16 : 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
  • Job 42:3-6 : 3 Who [is] he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. 6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.
  • Ps 49:10 : 10 For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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  • 1 ¶ The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, [even] the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

  • 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

  • 22 So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.

  • 6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

  • 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I [am] not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

  • 3 Who [is] he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

  • 8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise?

  • 18 ¶ There be three [things which] are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

  • 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

  • Ps 38:13-14
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    13 But I, as a deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man [that] openeth not his mouth.

    14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs.

  • 9 Great men are not [always] wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

  • 18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

  • 13 [Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • 20 Man [that is] in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish.

  • 2 ¶ A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

  • 17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

  • 12 ¶ Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.

  • 12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding?

  • 28 For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.

  • 20 ¶ Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?

  • 23 ¶ All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it [was] far from me.

  • 16 When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me;

  • Job 34:34-35
    2 verses
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    34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.

    35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words [were] without wisdom.

  • 17 Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.

  • 25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason [of things], and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness [and] madness:

  • Eccl 1:16-17
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    16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all [they] that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

    17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

  • 15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity.

  • 12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass's colt.

  • 3 ¶ The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

  • 14 Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.

  • 9 What knowest thou, that we know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us?

  • 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.

  • 10 ¶ But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.

  • 1 ¶ I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

  • 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

  • 6 [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.

  • 2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you.

  • 14 Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am] understanding; I have strength.

  • 28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.

  • 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?

  • 2 Who [is] this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

  • 17 ¶ I will shew thee, hear me; and that [which] I have seen I will declare;

  • 18 ¶ A man void of understanding striketh hands, [and] becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

  • 20 ¶ Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his words? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.

  • 22 For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • 4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.

  • 1 ¶ To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: [there is] none that doeth good.