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Proverbs 30:2

Proverbs 30:2
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Surely I am more brutish than any man,.... "Every man is become brutish in his knowledge"; man in his original state was a knowing creature but sinning lost his knowledge, and "became like the beasts…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

A confession of ignorance, with which compare the saying of Socrates that he was wise only so far as he knew that he knew nothing, or that of Asaph Psa 73:22.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Proverbs 30:1-6

Some make Agur to be not the name of this author, but his character; he was a collector (so it signifies), a gatherer, one that did not compose things himself, but collected the wise sayings and…