Deuteronomy 32:28

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • 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 wise to do 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 the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is 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 shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
  • 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 manner 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 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, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} to have you ignorant 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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  • 29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

  • 22For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

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

  • 18They 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.

  • 27Were 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.

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

  • 4Then 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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    29Because they hated knowledge, And didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

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

  • 30There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Yahweh.

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

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

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

  • 11When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is 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.

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

  • 9It is not the great who are wise, Nor the aged who understand justice.

  • 27Because they turned aside from following him, And wouldn't have regard in any of his ways:

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

  • 17Because God has deprived her of wisdom, Neither has he imparted to her understanding.

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

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

  • 24He 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.

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    20He 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.

    21They 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.

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

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

  • 12But 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.

  • Isa 30:1-2
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    1Woe to the rebellious children, says Yahweh, who take counsel, but not of me; and who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

    2that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

  • 28You 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.

  • 5Because they don't regard the works of Yahweh, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 37He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

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

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

  • 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.

  • 5They 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.

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

  • Isa 29:14-15
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    14therefore, 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 shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

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

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

  • 3Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we don't fear Yahweh; And the king, what can he do for us?"

  • 50a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,

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

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

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

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

  • 11Because they rebelled against the words of God, And condemned the counsel of the Most High.