3I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
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May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; …
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Some make Agur to be not the name of this author, but his character; he was a collector (so it signifies), a gatherer, one that did not compose things himself, but collected the wise sayings and observations of others, made abstracts of the writings of others, which some think is the reason why he says (Prov. 30:3), “ I have not learned wisdom myself, but have been a scribe, or amanuensis, to othe…
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