Deuteronomy 32:28

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.

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  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
  • Deut 32:6 : 6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
  • Isa 29:14 : 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.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 ¶ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Jer 8:9 : 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?
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 ¶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
  • Matt 13:14-15 : 14 ‹And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:› 15 ‹For this people's heart is waxed gross, and› [their] ‹ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with› [their] ‹eyes, and hear with› [their] ‹ears, and should understand with› [their] ‹heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.›
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

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  • Deut 32:29
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    29O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end!

  • Jer 4:22
    79%

    22For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • Jer 10:8
    75%

    8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • Deut 32:27
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    27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

  • Isa 41:28
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    28For I beheld, and [there was] no man; even among them, and [there was] no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

  • Jer 5:4
    74%

    4Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.

  • Prov 1:29-30
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    74%

    29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

    30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

  • Prov 21:30
    73%

    30¶ [There is] no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

  • Jer 8:9
    73%

    9The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

  • Ps 82:5
    73%

    5They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

  • Rom 3:11
    73%

    11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

  • Isa 27:11
    72%

    11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

  • Jer 5:21
    72%

    21Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

  • Job 32:9
    72%

    9Great men are not [always] wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

  • Job 34:27
    72%

    27Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

  • Ps 135:17
    72%

    17They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there [any] breath in their mouths.

  • Job 39:17
    72%

    17Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

  • Job 17:4
    72%

    4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].

  • Prov 15:22
    72%

    22¶ Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

  • Job 12:24
    71%

    24He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness [where there is] no way.

  • Deut 32:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end [shall be]: for they [are] a very froward generation, children in whom [is] no faith.

    21They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

  • Ps 107:27
    71%

    27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise?

  • Mic 4:12
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    12But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

  • Isa 30:1-2
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    71%

    1¶ Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

    2That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

  • Jer 7:28
    71%

    28But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

  • Ps 28:5
    71%

    5Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

  • Ps 53:1
    71%

    1¶ To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: [there is] none that doeth good.

  • Rom 3:17
    71%

    17And the way of peace have they not known:

  • Job 21:16
    71%

    16Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Deut 32:37
    71%

    37And he shall say, Where [are] their gods, [their] rock in whom they trusted,

  • Job 34:35
    71%

    35Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words [were] without wisdom.

  • Ps 92:6
    70%

    6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

  • Ps 14:1
    70%

    1¶ To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good.

  • Isa 30:5
    70%

    5They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

  • Job 26:3
    70%

    3How hast thou counselled [him that hath] no wisdom? and [how] hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

  • Isa 29:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14Therefore, 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.

    15Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

  • Ps 115:7
    70%

    7They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

  • Hos 10:3
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    3For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?

  • Deut 28:50
    70%

    50A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

  • Deut 32:31
    70%

    31For their rock [is] not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves [being] judges.

  • Isa 5:13
    70%

    13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because [they have] no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

  • Prov 7:7
    70%

    7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

  • Ps 33:10
    70%

    10The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

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    11Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: