Proverbs 30:3
What does Proverbs 30:3 mean?
A plain-English look at Proverbs 30:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And I have not learned wisdom, Neither have I the knowledge of the Holy One.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And I have not learned wisdom, Neither have I the knowledge of the Holy One.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752I have not learned wisdom, and have not known the science of saints.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890I have neither learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy.
Context
v.2Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man;
v.3This passage
v.4Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in his garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou knowest?
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- John 17:3
And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.
- Isaiah 6:3
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
- Isaiah 30:11
get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
- Ephesians 3:18
may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
- Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
- Matthew 11:27
All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal him.
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