Verse 20

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 1:22 : 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
  • Job 12:17 : 17 He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.
  • Isa 33:18 : 18 Thy heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed [the tribute] ? where is he that counted the towers?
  • Isa 44:25 : 25 that frustrateth the signs of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
  • Isa 53:1 : 1 Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed?
  • 1 Cor 1:19 : 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:
  • Job 12:20 : 20 He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.
  • Job 12:24 : 24 He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
  • 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
  • 2 Sam 16:23 : 23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
  • 2 Sam 17:14 : 14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Jehovah had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring evil upon Absalom.
  • 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
  • Isa 19:11-12 : 11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12 Where then are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt.