Isaiah 19:11

World English Bible (2000)

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?"

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  • Num 13:22 : 22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
  • 1 Kgs 4:30 : 30 Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
  • Ps 78:43 : 43 how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
  • Isa 30:4 : 4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.
  • Acts 7:22 : 22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
  • Gen 41:38-39 : 38 Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?" 39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
  • Ps 78:12 : 12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
  • 1 Cor 1:19-20 : 19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing." 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • Isa 44:25 : 25 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
  • Jer 10:14 : 14 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
  • Jer 10:21 : 21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
  • Jer 49:7 : 7 Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
  • Ezek 7:26 : 26 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
  • Ezek 30:14 : 14 I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:
  • Prov 30:2 : 2 "Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding.
  • Isa 19:3 : 3 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.
  • Isa 19:13 : 13 The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.
  • 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 5:12-13 : 12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
  • Job 12:17 : 17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

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