Jeremiah 8:8

How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly he made it falsely; the pen of the scribes made it a lie.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For a vain man will be wise, when a man is born a wild donkey's colt.

He takes away the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

He shows his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children is their fathers.

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write misfortune which they have prescribed;

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

And honors not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God void by your tradition.

Jesus said unto them, If you were blind, you should have no sin: but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.

Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

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How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

And honors not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God void by your tradition.

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children is their fathers.

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write misfortune which they have prescribed;

Take heed therefore that the light which is in you be not darkness.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,