Proverbs 30:1-3

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The Words of Agur

30 The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The pronouncement.^[a]^(A)
The man’s oration to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal:^[b]

²I am more stupid than any other person,^[c]
and I lack a human’s ability to understand.^(B)
³I have not gained wisdom,
and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.^(C)

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Footnotes

30:1 Or son of Jakeh from Massa; Pr 31:1
30:1 Hb uncertain. Sometimes read with different word division as oration: I am weary, God, I am weary, God, and I am exhausted, or oration: I am not God, I am not God, that I should prevail. LXX reads My son, fear my words and when you have received them repent. The man says these things to the believers in God, and I pause.
30:2 Lit I am more stupid than a man

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