1 Corinthians 1:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Is the wise

Isaiah 33:18

Isaiah 53:1

Hath

Romans 1:22

General references

Bible References

Is the wise

Your {mind} will meditate [on the] terror: "Where [is the] one who counted? Where [is the] one who weighed out? Where [is the] one who counted the towers?"

Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?

Hath

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will confound."

Now David [was] told, "Ahithophel [was] among the conspirators with Absalom." Then David said, "Please frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel, O Yahweh."

The counsel that Ahithophel gave in those days [was] regarded as when a man inquired of the word of God, so all the counsel of Ahithophel [was esteemed] both by David and by Absalom.

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite [is] better than the advice of Ahithophel." (Now Yahweh had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel in order for Yahweh to bring misery upon Absalom).

He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes fools of judges.

who frustrates [the] signs of oracle priests and makes a fool of diviners, who drives [the] wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

General references

He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes fools of judges.

Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let [them] triumph.

"But from where will wisdom be found? And {where in the world} [is the] place of understanding?

Therefore pay careful attention [that] the light in you is not darkness!

{None} of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed in him, [have they]?

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,