1 Corinthians 1:19
"For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."
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- Isaiah 29:14
"Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 8:9
"The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?"
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 3:19
"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness."
Read in chapter → - Job 5:12
"He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 19:11
"Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?"
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 19:3
"And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards."
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