Proverbs 30:2
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
KJV
Stultissimus sum virorum, et sapientia hominum non est mecum.
Vulgate
Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man;
ASV
כִּ֤י בַ֣עַר אָנֹכִ֣י מֵ/אִ֑ישׁ וְ/לֹֽא בִינַ֖ת אָדָ֣ם לִֽ/י
Hebrew
I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִ֣ישׁ
'ysh
noun · 2171×
אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
אָנֹכִ֖י
'nky
pronoun · 356×
בַ֣עַר
b'r
adjective · 5×
בִּינָֽה
bynh
noun · 38×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Should wisdom be reckoned among the gifts of the Holy Ghost? What is its subject? Is wisdom only speculative or also practical? Is the wisdom that is a gift compatible with mortal sin? Is it in all those who have sanctifying grace? Which beatitude corresponds to it? Article 1. Whether wisdom should be reckoned among the gifts of the Holy Ghost? Objection 1. It would seem that w…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 3:18 — 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.
- 1Cor 8:2 — And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
- Acts 8:31 — And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
- Jer 10:14 — 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.
- Job 42:3 — 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.
- Prov 5:12 — And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
- Ps 49:10 — For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
- Ps 73:22 — So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
- Ps 73:22 — So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
- Ps 92:6 — A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
- Ps 139:6 — Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
- Rom 7:14 — For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.