Verse 2
Proverbs 30:2
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֤י בַ֣עַר אָנֹכִ֣י מֵ/אִ֑ישׁ וְ/לֹֽא בִינַ֖ת אָדָ֣ם לִֽ/י
English Translation
For I am a brute, and not a man; I do not have understanding of a human.
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Chapter 30 Context
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The words of Gatherer the son of Vomiter. The vision which the man spoke with whom God (Elohim) is,...
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I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.
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I have not learned wisdom, and have not known the science of saints.
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Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? who hath held the wind in his hands? who hath bound...
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Every word of God (Elohim) is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him.
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Add not any thing to his words, lest thou be reproved, and found a liar:
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Two things I have asked of thee, deny them not to me before I die.
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Remove far from me vanity, and lying words. Give me neither beggary, nor riches: give me only the ne...
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Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled...
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Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou fall.
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There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
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A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
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A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up on high.
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A generation, that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy fro...
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The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. There are three things that never are sati...
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Hell, and the mouth of the womb, and the earth which is not satisfied with water: and the fire never...
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The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let...
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Three things are hard to me, and the fourth I am utterly ignorant of.
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The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of...
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Such is also the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have don...
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By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear:
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By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when he is filled with meat:
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By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.
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There are four very little things of the earth, and they are wiser than the wise:
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The ants, a feeble people, which provide themselves food in the harvest:
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The rabbit, a weak people, which maketh its bed in the rock:
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The locust hath no king, yet they all go out by their bands.
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The stellio supporteth itself on hands, and dwelleth in kings' houses.
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There are three things, which go well, and the fourth that walketh happily:
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A lion, the strongest of beasts, who hath no fear of any thing he meeteth:
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A cock girded about the loins: and a ram: and a king, whom none can resist.
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There is that hath appeared a fool after he was lifted up on high: for if he had understood, he woul...
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And he that strongly squeezeth the papa to bring out milk, straineth out butter: and he that violent...
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