Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against LORD.

New American Standard Bible

There is no wisdom and no understanding
And no counsel against the Lord.

King James Version

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

Holman Bible

No wisdom, no understanding, and no counsel
will prevail against the Lord.

International Standard Version

No wisdom, insight, or counsel can prevail against the LORD.

American Standard Version

There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Jehovah.

Amplified


There is no [human] wisdom or understanding
Or counsel [that can prevail] against the Lord.

Bible in Basic English

Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.

Darby Translation

There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel against Jehovah.

Julia Smith Translation

No wisdom and no understanding, and no counsel against Jehovah.

King James 2000

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

Lexham Expanded Bible

There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel to oppose Yahweh.

Modern King James verseion

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

There is no wisdom, there is no understanding, there is no counsel against the LORD.

NET Bible

There is no wisdom and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel against the Lord.

New Heart English Bible

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

The Emphasized Bible

There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel, to confront Yahweh.

Webster

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

World English Bible

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Youngs Literal Translation

There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
There is no wisdom
חכמה 
Chokmah 
Usage: 149

תּובנה תּבוּנה תּבוּןo 
Tabuwn 
Usage: 42

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

29 A wicked man hardens his face, but as for an upright man, he establishes his ways. 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against LORD. 31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle, but victory is from LORD.

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:23

Thus says LORD: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might. Let not the rich man glory in his riches,

Acts 5:39

but if it is from God, ye cannot overthrow it, and perhaps ye may be found to be fighting against God.

Proverbs 19:21

There are many devices in a man's heart, but the counsel of LORD, that shall stand.

Isaiah 8:9-10

Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces. And give ear, all ye of far countries. Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces.

Isaiah 7:5-7

Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against thee, saying,

Isaiah 14:27

For LORD of hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Isaiah 46:10-11

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure,

Jonah 1:13

Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get themselves back to the land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.

Acts 4:27-28

For in truth, against thy holy Boy Jesus, whom thou anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together,

1 Corinthians 3:19-20

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He who catches the wise in their craftiness,

1 Peter 2:8

and, A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, men who stumble at the word, being disobedient, for which also they were set.

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