Verse 11

Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Referenced Verses

  • Num 13:22 : 22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, [were]. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
  • 1 Kgs 4:30 : 30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
  • Ps 78:43 : 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
  • Isa 30:4 : 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
  • Acts 7:22 : 22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
  • Gen 41:38-39 : 38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find [such a one] as this [is], a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]? 39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, [there is] none so discreet and wise as thou [art]:
  • Ps 78:12 : 12 Marvellous things did he 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, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • Isa 44:25 : 25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise [men] backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
  • Jer 10:14 : 14 Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
  • Jer 10:21 : 21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
  • Jer 49:7 : 7 ¶ Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
  • Ezek 7:26 : 26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
  • Ezek 30:14 : 14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
  • Prov 30:2 : 2 Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.
  • Isa 19:3 : 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
  • Isa 19:13 : 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, [even they that are] the stay of the tribes thereof.
  • 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 5:12-13 : 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise. 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
  • Job 12:17 : 17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.