Verse 20

Where is the wise? where is ye scribe? where is the disputer of this worlde? Hath not God made the wisedome of this worlde foolyshenesse?

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 1:22 : 22 When they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles:
  • Job 12:17 : 17 He carieth away the wyse men as it were a spoyle, and bringeth the iudges out of their wittes.
  • Isa 33:18 : 18 Thine heart studied for feare thinking thus: What shall then become of the scribe? of the receauer of our money? what of hym that taxed our fairest houses?
  • Isa 44:25 : 25 I destroy the tokens of witches, and make the soothsayers fooles: As for the wise I turne them backwarde, and make their cunning foolishnesse.
  • Isa 53:1 : 1 But who hath geuen credence vnto our preaching? or to whom is the arme of the Lorde knowen?
  • 1 Cor 1:19 : 19 For it is written, I wyll destroye the wisedome of the wyse, and wyll cast away the vnderstandyng of the prudent.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 And we speake wisedome among the that are perfite: not the wisedome of this world, neither of the princes of this world, which come to naught.
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisedome of this worlde, is foolishnesse with God. For it is writte: He compasseth the wise in their own craftynesse.
  • Job 12:20 : 20 He stoppeth the mouth of them that speake trueth, & disapoynteth the aged of their reason.
  • Job 12:24 : 24 He taketh away the hearte of them that be heades of ye people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in the wildernesse out of the way.
  • 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 And one tolde Dauid, saying: Ahithophel is one of them that haue conspired with Absalom. And Dauid sayde: O Lorde I pray thee, turne the counsell of Ahithophel into foolishnes.
  • 2 Sam 16:23 : 23 And the counsel of Ahithophel whiche he counseled in those dayes, was as a man had asked counsel at the oracle of God: euen so was all the counsel of Ahithophel, both with Dauid and with Absalom.
  • 2 Sam 17:14 : 14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel sayde: The counsel of Husai the Arachite, is better then the counsell of Ahithophel. For it was euen the Lordes determination to destroy the good counsell of Ahithophel, that the Lorde might bring euyll vpon Absalom.
  • 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 And when Ahithophel sawe that his counsel was not folowed, he sadled his Asse, and arose and gate him home to his owne house, and to his owne citie, & put his housholde in order, and hanged him selfe, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
  • Isa 19:11-12 : 11 But you foolishe princes of Zoan, ye wise counsaylers of Pharao, whose wit is turned to foolishnesse, howe say ye vnto Pharao, I am come of wise men and of auncient kinges? 12 Where are thy wise men? Let them tell thee yf they can, what the Lorde of hoastes hath deuised vpon Egypt.