Jeremiah 4:22

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Summary

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

They are wise

General references

Bible References

They are wise

But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of

Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very shrewd man.

Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father. The hands of all who are with you will also be strengthened.”

Woe to those who scheme iniquity,
Who work out evil on their beds!

When morning comes, they do it,

For it is in the power of their hands.

And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.

For the report of your obedience has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

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All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;

So she left his garment beside her until his master came home.

“For they are a nation lacking in counsel,
And there is no understanding in them.

Evil men do not understand justice,
But those who seek the Lord

understand all things.

Then I said, “They are only the poor,
They are foolish;
For they do not know the way of the Lord
Or the ordinance of their God.

I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.’