Deuteronomy 32:28

World English Bible (2000)

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:22 : 22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
  • Deut 32:6 : 6 Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
  • Isa 29:14 : 14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden."
  • Job 28:28 : 28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Jer 8:9 : 9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what kind of wisdom is in them?
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.
  • Matt 13:14-15 : 14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive: 15 for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."

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    29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

  • Jer 4:22
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    22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

  • Jer 10:8
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    8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

  • Deut 32:27
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    27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.'"

  • Isa 41:28
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    28 When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

  • Prov 1:29-30
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    29 because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

    30 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

  • Prov 21:30
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    30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

  • Jer 8:9
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    9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what kind of wisdom is in them?

  • Ps 82:5
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    5 They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Rom 3:11
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    11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

  • Isa 27:11
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    11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21 'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:

  • Job 32:9
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    9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

  • Job 34:27
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    27 because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,

  • Ps 135:17
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    17 They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • Job 39:17
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    17 because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

  • Job 17:4
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    4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.

  • Prov 15:22
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    22 Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

  • Job 12:24
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    24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

  • Deut 32:20-21
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    20 He said, "I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

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

  • Ps 107:27
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    27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

  • Mic 4:12
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    12 But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

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    1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

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    28 You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

  • Ps 28:5
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    5 Because they don't respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

  • Ps 53:1
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    1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

  • Rom 3:17
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    17 The way of peace, they haven't known."

  • Job 21:16
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    16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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    35 'Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.'

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    6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

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    1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

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    5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach."

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    3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

  • Isa 29:14-15
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    14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden."

    15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"

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    7 They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

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

  • Isa 5:13
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    13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

  • Prov 7:7
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    7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

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    10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

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    11 because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.