Proverbs 30:3

I have not learned wisdom, nor do I have knowledge ¹  of the Holy One. ² 

biblegateway Pro 30:3

I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.

biblegateway Pro 30:3

Neither have I learned wisdom, Nor do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

biblegateway Pro 30:3

I have not mastered human wisdom, nor do I know the Holy One.

biblegateway Pro 30:3

"I flunked 'wisdom.' I see no evidence of a holy God.

SABDAweb Pro 30:3

I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One.

bibleoremus Pro 30:3

I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the holy ones.

biblegateway Pro 30:3

I neither learned wisdom Nor have knowledge of the Holy One.

biblegateway Pro 30:3

I have not learned wisdom, nor do I have knowledge ¹  of the Holy One. ² 

¹ sn The construction uses repetition to make the point emphatically: “I do not know the knowledge of the Holy One.” Agur’s claim to being “brutish” is here clarified – he is not one of those who has knowledge or understanding of God. C. H. Toy thinks the speaker is being sarcastic in reference to others who may have claimed such knowledge (Proverbs [ICC], 521).

² tn The epithet “the Holy One” is the adjective “holy” put in the masculine plural (as in 9:10). This will harmonize with the plural of majesty used to explain the plural with titles for God. However, NRSV takes the plural as a reference to the “holy ones,” presumably referring to angelic beings.