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The Words of Agur

Proverbs 30:3

In 10 translations

BSB
I have not learned wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.
KJV
I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.have: Heb. know
WEB
I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
ASV
And I have not learned wisdom, Neither have I the knowledge of the Holy One.
LSV
Nor have I learned wisdom, || Yet I know the knowledge of the Holy Ones.
YLT
Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.
DBY
I have neither learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy.
DRC
I have not learned wisdom, and have not known the science of saints.
GNV
For I haue not learned wisedome, nor atteined to the knowledge of holy things.
JPS
And I have not learned wisdom, that I should have the knowledge of the Holy One.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וְלֹֽא־לָמַ֥דְתִּי חָכְמָ֑ה וְדַ֖עַת קְדֹשִׁ֣ים אֵדָֽע׃

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Ephesians 3:18–19will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness…
  • Revelation 3:7To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.
  • Proverbs 9:10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
  • Romans 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
  • Revelation 4:8And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
  • Isaiah 30:11Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
  • John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
  • Isaiah 6:3And they were calling out to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory.”
  • Matthew 11:27All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
  • Isaiah 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive…
  • Job 11:7–9Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know? Their measure is longer than the earth and…
  • Amos 7:14–15“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees. But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My…
  • Isaiah 6:10Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
  • Matthew 16:17Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.

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