Proverbs 30:4
Good News Translation
Have any ever mastered heavenly knowledge? Have any ever caught the wind in their hands? Or wrapped up water in a piece of cloth? Or fixed the boundaries of the earth? Who are they, if you know? Who are their children?

New Revised Standard Version
Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of the hand? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is the person’s name? And what is the name of the person’s child? Surely you know!

Contemporary English Version
Has anyone gone up to heaven and come back down? Has anyone grabbed hold of the wind? Has anyone wrapped up the sea or marked out boundaries for the earth? If you know of any who have done such things, then tell me their names and their children's names.

New American Bible
Who has gone up to heaven and come down again— who has cupped the wind in the hollow of the hand? Who has bound up the waters in a cloak— who has established all the ends of the earth? What is that person’s name, or the name of his son?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? who hath held the wind in his hands? who hath bound up the waters together as in a garment? who hath raised up all the borders of the earth? what is his name, and what is the name of his son, if thou knowest?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? who hath held the wind in his hands? who hath bound up the waters together as in a garment? who hath raised up all the borders of the earth? what is his name, and what is the name of his son, if thou knowest?

who hath ascended

Deuteronomy 30:12 Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say: Which of us can go up to heaven to bring it unto us, and we may hear and fulfil it in work?

John 3:13 And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.

Romans 10:6 But the justice which is of faith, speaketh thus: Say not in thy heart: Who shall ascend into heaven? That is to bring Christ down;

Ephesians 4:9,10 Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? . . .

who hath gathered

Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.

Psalm 104:2 And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion:

Isaiah 40:2 Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil is come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.

Isaiah 53:8 He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall declare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him.

what is his name

Genesis 32:29 Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place.

Judges 13:18 And he answered him: Why askest thou my name, which is wonderful?

Psalm 2:7 The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.

Isaiah 9:6 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.

Jeremiah 23:6 In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell confidently: and this is the name that they shall call him: The Lord our just one.

Matthew 1:21-23 And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins. . . .

Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.

Luke 10:22 All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son and to whom the Son will reveal him.

Context
The Words of Agur
3I have not learned wisdom, and have not known the science of saints. 4Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? who hath held the wind in his hands? who hath bound up the waters together as in a garment? who hath raised up all the borders of the earth? what is his name, and what is the name of his son, if thou knowest?5Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him.…
Cross References
John 3:13
And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.

Ephesians 4:8
Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive: he gave gifts to men.

Revelation 19:12
And his eyes were as a flame of fire: and on his head were many diadems. And he had a name written, which no man knoweth but himself.

Exodus 15:10
Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.

Job 26:8
He bindeth up the waters in his clouds, so that they break not out and fall down together.

Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.

Job 38:8
Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:

Job 38:9
When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?

Psalm 24:2
For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers.

Psalm 68:18
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive; thou hast received gifts in men. Yea for those also that do not believe, the dwelling of the Lord God.

Psalm 135:7
He bringeth up clouds from the end of the earth: he hath made lightnings for the rain. He bringeth forth winds out of his stores:

Isaiah 45:18
For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not create it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Proverbs 30:3
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