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Proverbs 30:2-4
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Like Job[a]

2 I count myself among the most stupid of men,
    and I am bereft of human understanding.
3 I have not learned wisdom,
    nor do I have any knowledge of the Most Holy One.
4 Who has ever gone up to heaven and come down again?
    Who has cupped the wind in the hollow of his hands?
Who has wrapped the waters in the fold of his garment?
    Who has established all the boundaries of the earth?
What is his name or the name of his son?
    Do you know it?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:2 In this dialogue with God, the sage loses all his assurance; he is no longer the man who knows everything. The mystery of God is divined in creation, but who could attain such knowledge! Can human beings do anything else but respectfully embrace his word, i.e., the Law and the Prophets and perhaps the teachings of the sages?
  2. Proverbs 30:4 See the similar use of rhetorical questions to express God’s greatness in Job 38:4-11; Isa 40:12. Do you know it?: see Job 38:4.
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