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?"
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- Psalms 119:98
"Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me."
Read in chapter → - Job 5:12
"He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 6:15
"Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 4:6
"Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 19:7
"The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 6:19
"Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 1:18
"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God."
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 → - Ezekiel 7:26
"Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients."
Read in chapter → - 2 Timothy 3:15
"And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."
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