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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• ²²Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee. (Psa. 73:22)

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Job 42:3‑6• ³Who is he that obscureth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered what I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
⁴Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and inform me.
⁵I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee:
⁶Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:3‑6)

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Psa. 73:22• ²²Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee. (Psa. 73:22)

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Isa. 6:5• ⁵And I said, Woe unto 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 to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in; (Rom. 11:25)

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1 Cor. 3:18• ¹⁸Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise. (1 Cor. 3:18)

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1 Cor. 8:2• ²If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it. (1 Cor. 8:2)

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James 1:5• ⁵But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him: (James 1:5)

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Prov. 5:12• ¹²and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof! (Prov. 5:12)

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Psa. 92:6• ⁶A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it. (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 natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption,
¹³receiving the reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you;
¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁵having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;
¹⁶but had reproof of his own wickedness--the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the folly 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.