I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
Parallel translations
- KJV I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
- BSB I have not learned wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.
- NKJV I neither learned wisdom Nor have knowledge of the Holy One.
- NASB Nor have I learned wisdom, Nor do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
- NLT I have not mastered human wisdom, nor do I know the Holy One.
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Quick answer
Agur admits he has not attained wisdom or the knowledge of the Holy One on his own.
Overview
Continuing his confession, the sage disclaims any self-made mastery of divine truth, recognizing that knowledge of God is a gift, not an achievement. Such humility guards against the pride that masquerades as wisdom. It prepares the reader to receive revelation gratefully, for true knowledge of the Holy One comes through God's self-disclosure, climaxing in His Son.
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Cross-references · 14
- Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
- Rom 11:33Oh 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!
- Eph 3:18–19may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
- Prov 9:10The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
- Job 11:7–9“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
- Matt 11:27All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
- Isa 6:10Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”
- Amos 7:14–15Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
- John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
- Isa 30:11Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
- Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Isa 6:3One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”
- Rev 4:8The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
- Matt 16:17Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
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