John Trapp on Proverbs 30:2

Verſ. 2. Surely I am more brutiſh than any man] Or, Surely I have been brutiſh ſince I was a man. See how this good man vilifies, yea nullifies himſelf to the utmoſt. This was true humility, that like true Balm ever ſinks to the bottom; when Hypocritical, as Oyl, ſwims on the top. Humilit as ab humo, becauſe it layes a man flat on the ground. Agur had ſeen Ithiel and Ʋcal; hence hee ſeeth ſo little by himſelf, Job 42.5. Now mine eyes have ſeen thee: wherefore I abhorre my ſelf &c. Woe is me for I am undone, ſaith Eſay, for mine eyes have ſeen the King the Lord of Hoſts, chap. 6.5. Hee that looks intently upon the Sun, hath his eyes dazeled: ſo he that beholds the infinite excellencies of God, conſiders the diſtance, cannot but be ſenſible of his own naughtineſs, nothingneſs. It is fit the foundation ſhould be laid deep, where the building is ſo high. Agurs humility was not more low, than his aymes lofty: Who hath aſcended up into heaven, &c. It is an high pitch that he flyes, for he knew well, that godlineſs as it begins in the right knowledge of our ſelves, ſo it ends in the right knowledge of God.

And have not the underſtanding of a man] Or, Neither is there in me the underſtanding that was in Adam. Man when hee came firſt out of Gods Mint,Tanta fuit Adami recens conditi ſtupiditas, ut major in infantes cadere non poſſit. Socin. ſhone moſt glorious in knowledge, righteouſneſs, and holineſs. Socinians feign him ſilly, and therein betray their own ſillineſs. He had a large meaſure of objective knowledge, both in Natural things, and Supernatural; which we have loſt in him, 1 Cor. 2.14. This we ſhould with Agur here ſit down and bewayl, as thoſe in Ezra did the burnt Temple, chap. 3.12.