Job 17:10

World English Bible (2000)

But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:29 : 29 Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
  • Job 42:7 : 7 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
  • Mal 3:18 : 18 Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
  • 1 Cor 1:20 : 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?
  • 1 Cor 6:5 : 5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
  • Job 12:2 : 2 "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
  • Job 15:9 : 9 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?
  • Job 17:4 : 4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
  • Job 32:9 : 9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

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  • Eccl 1:15-17
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    15 That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.

    16 I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."

    17 I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

  • Eccl 7:19-20
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    19 Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

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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.

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    15 Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

    16 Then I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

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  • Eccl 7:10
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    23 All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" but it was far from me.

    24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

    25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

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    12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

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    15 The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.

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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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    12 I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

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    14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

    15 Then I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

    16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

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

  • Job 34:34
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    34 Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:

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    27 "Behold, I have found this," says the Preacher, "one to another, to find out the scheme;

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    3 Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

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    5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

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    7 Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

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    25 but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

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    3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

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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?

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    7 Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.

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    16 Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

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    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?

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    8 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

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    13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

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    9 If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

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    2 "Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

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    13 I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

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    4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

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    12 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

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