Proverbs 30:1-3
The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the
prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, Surely I am
more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. I neither
learned wisdom,
nor have the knowledge of the holy.
As this gentleman begins to give counsel he places
himself in a place of humility. He
establishes that he is not going to draw on any inner conclusions he himself
has come up with because, in his own nature, he has nothing to give. It is always good to establish the fact that
the advice we would give someone else is not from our own resources but derived
from the Lord and His word. This is not
false humility. It is a statement that
helps the person listening to turn their attention to the Lord and not depend
on the counsel of man.
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