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 recall the terror you experienced, and you will ask yourselves, "Where is the scribe? Where is the one who weighs the money? Where is the one who counts the towers?"

Who would have believed what we just heard? When was the Lord's power revealed through him?

Hath

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

Now David had been told, "Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed, "Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O Lord!"

In those days Ahithophel's advice was considered as valuable as a prophetic revelation. Both David and Absalom highly regarded the advice of Ahithophel.

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel." Now the Lord had decided to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord could bring disaster on Absalom.

He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

who frustrates the omens of the empty talkers and humiliates the omen readers, who overturns the counsel of the wise men and makes their advice seem foolish,

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

General references

He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

"But wisdom -- where can it be found? Where is the place of understanding?

Therefore see to it that the light in you is not darkness.

None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools