Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

Bible References

The wise men are

Jeremiah 6:15
Were they ashamed when they did abomination? also shaming they will not be ashamed; also they knew not feeling shame; for this they shall fall with those falling: in the time of my reviewing them they shall faint, said Jehovah.
Jeremiah 49:7
To Edom, thus said Jehovah of armies, Is wisdom no more in Teman? did counsel perish from the discerning? was their wisdom poured out?
Job 5:12
Bringing to nought the purposes of the crafty, and their hand shall not do an undertaking.
Isaiah 19:11
Also the chiefs of Zoan are foolish, the wise counseling Pharaoh the counsel became brutish: how shall ye say to Pharaoh, I the son of the wise, the son of kings of old?
Ezekiel 7:26
And ruin upon ruin shall come, and report shall be to report; and they sought a vision from the prophet; and law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the old men.
1 Corinthians 1:26
For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born:

Lo

Deuteronomy 4:6
And watch and do: for it is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who shall hear all these laws, and say, Only this great nation a wise and understanding people.
Psalm 19:7
The law of Jehovah is blameless, turning back the soul; the testimonies of Jehovah being faithful, making wise the simple.
Psalm 119:98
Above mine enemies thou wilt make me wise from thy commands, for It is forever to me.
Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony if they will not speak according to this word, because no morning is in them.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For truly the word of the cross to them perishing is foolishness; but to us saved it is the power of God.
2 Timothy 3:15
And that from infancy thou hast known the holy letters, able to render thee wise to salvation by faith which in Christ Jesus.

General references

Deuteronomy 32:28
For they a nation destroying counsels, And no understanding in them.
Proverbs 1:30
They desired not for my counsels: and derided all my reproofs.
Luke 11:35
Take heed therefore lest the light in thee be darkness.
Romans 1:22
Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools,
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the intelligent.