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Prov. 30:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Psa. 73:22• ²²And I [was] brutish and knew nothing:{HR}A beast I was with thee. (Psa. 73:22)

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Job 42:3‑6• ³Who [is] this darkening counsel without knowledge?{HR}Therefore I declared what I understood not,{HR}Things too wonderful for me, that I knew not.
⁴Hear, I pray thee, and I will speak:{HR}I ask thee, and make thou me to know.
⁵By the hearing of the ear I heard thee;{HR}But now mine eye seeth thee:
⁶Therefore do I loathe [myself],{HR}And repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:3‑6)

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Psa. 73:22• ²²And I [was] brutish and knew nothing:{HR}A beast I was with thee. (Psa. 73:22)

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Isa. 6:5• ⁵Then said I, Woe to 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. (Isa. 6:5)

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Rom. 11:25• ²⁵For I do not wish you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery, that ye be not wise in your own eyes, that hardness hath happened in part to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles come in; (Rom. 11:25)

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1 Cor. 3:18• ¹⁸Let none deceive himself; if anyone thinketh himself to be wise among you in this age, let him become foolish that he may be wise. (1 Cor. 3:18)

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1 Cor. 8:2• ²If anyone thinketh that he knoweth anything, not yet knoweth he as he ought to know; (1 Cor. 8:2)

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James 1:5• ⁵If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all freely and reproacheth not; and it shall be given him. (James 1:5)

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Prov. 5:12• ¹²And thou say, How have I hated instruction,{HR}And my heart despised reproof; (Prov. 5:12)

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Psa. 92:6• ⁶A brutish man knoweth not,{HR}And a fool doth not understand this. (Psa. 92:6)

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Jer. 10:14• ¹⁴Every 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. (Jer. 10:14)

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2 Peter 2:12‑16• ¹²But these, as irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, speaking evil in what things they are ignorant, shall also perish in their corruption,
¹³receiving as they shall wages of unrighteousness, accounting [their] ephemeral luxury pleasure; spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their love feasts, feasting with you;
¹⁴having eyes full of an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁵abandoning as they did a straight way, they went astray, following out in the way of Balaam [son] of Beor, who loved wages of unrighteousness,
¹⁶but had reproof of his own iniquity; a dumb beast of burden speaking with man's voice forbade the madness of the prophet. (2 Peter 2:12‑16)

• He begins his oracle by declaring his own ignorance, apart from divine enlightenment—that “vision” of Proverbs 29:18 which is essential to fit a man to be a teacher of holy things. (“Proverbs Thirty” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Truly *I* am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man’s intelligence.

W. Kelly Translation

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Truly I am more stupid than any one;{HR}And I have not a man’s intelligence.{HR}

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)