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A confession of ignorance; compare with it the saying of Socrates that he was wise only insofar as he knew that he knew nothing, or that of Asaph (…

Surely I am more brutish than any man—Rather, than that I can be called a man, one “formed in the image of God” …

Surely I am more brutish than [any] man
"Every man is [become] brutish in his knowledge"; man in his original state …

Agur speaks of himself as lacking righteousness and having acted very foolishly. And it is fitting for us all to have humble thoughts of ourselves.…
Albert Barnes
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