Proverbs 30:2 meaning and explanation

Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.

Proverbs 30:2, Berean Standard Bible

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These are the words of Agur son of Jakeh, an otherwise unknown wisdom teacher whose sayings open Proverbs 30. He speaks as a weary man, and his confession is deliberately extreme: he calls himself the most ignorant of men, literally more brutish than a man, lacking human understanding.

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