Who [is] like the sage? Who knows [the] interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”

The princes are hanged up with the hand of the enemies; they have not spared the old sage men;

Sage, scribe, critic of this world, where are they all? Has not God stultified the wisdom of the world?