Proverbs 30:2 (BSB)

Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.

From Proverbs 30. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 30:2

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 30:1-6: 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 (Pro 30:3), "I have not learned wisdom myself, but have...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 30:2: Surely I am more brutish than any man,.... "Every man is become brutish in his knowledge"; man in his original state was a knowing creature but sinning lost his knowledge, and "became like the beasts that perish"; hence we read of the "brutish among the people": but Agur thought himself not only brutish among the rest, but more brutish than any.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 30:2: brutish--stupid, a strong term to denote his lowly self-estimation; or he may speak of such as his natural condition, as contrasted with God's all-seeing comprehensive knowledge and almighty power. The questions of this clause emphatically deny the attributes mentioned to be those of any creature, thus impressively strengthening the implied reference of the former to God (compare Deu 30:12-14; Isa 40:12; Eph 4:8).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 30:2: Surely I [am] more senseless than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man. (c) In this he declares his great humility who would not attribute any wisdom to himself but all to God.