Proverbs 30:3 - Exposition

I neither learned wisdom. With all my eager longing and striving I did not attain to such wisdom, that I should have the knowledge of the Holy One ; k'doshim , plural of "excellence," like elohim ( Proverbs 9:10 ; Hosea 12:1 (Hebrew); see note on Proverbs 1:20 ; and comp. Ecclesiastes 5:8 ; Ecclesiastes 12:1 ). The knowledge of the all holy God was beyond his grasp ( Job 11:7 , etc.). Theology is a higher science than metaphysics, and cannot be reached by that ladder. The LXX . gives an affirmative sense to this verse, "God hath taught me wisdom, and I know the knowledge of the holy ( ἁγίων )."