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1 Cor. 3:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, Hes taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

Job 5:13• ¹³He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong: (Job 5:13)

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the wisdom.

1 Cor. 1:19‑20• ¹⁹For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.
²⁰Where is the wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? (1 Cor. 1:19‑20)

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1 Cor. 2:6• ⁶But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought. (1 Cor. 2:6)

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Isa. 19:11‑14• ¹¹They are but fools, the princes of Zoan, the wise counsellors of Pharaoh: their counsel is become senseless. How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
¹²Where are they then, thy wise men? Let them now tell thee, and let them make known what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
¹³The princes of Zoan are become foolish, the princes of Noph are deceived; and the corner-stones of its tribes have caused Egypt to err.
¹⁴Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst thereof; and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunkard staggereth in his vomit. (Isa. 19:11‑14)

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Isa. 29:14‑16• ¹⁴therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvellously with this people, to do marvellously, even with wonder, and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hid.
¹⁵Woe unto them that hide deep, far from Jehovah, their counsel! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
¹⁶Oh your perverseness!--Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay, so that the work should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding? (Isa. 29:14‑16)

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Isa. 44:25• ²⁵--he that frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; (Isa. 44:25)

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Rom. 1:21‑22• ²¹Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:
²²professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, (Rom. 1:21‑22)

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Job 5:13• ¹³He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong: (Job 5:13)

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Ex. 1:10• ¹⁰Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass that, if war occur, they take side with our enemies and fight against us, and go up out of the land. (Ex. 1:10)

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Ex. 18:11• ¹¹Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they acted haughtily he was above them. (Ex. 18:11)

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2 Sam. 15:31• ³¹And one told David saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. Then said David, Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. (2 Sam. 15:31)

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2 Sam. 16:23• ²³And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had inquired of the word of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom. (2 Sam. 16:23)

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2 Sam. 17:14,23• ¹⁴And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. And Jehovah had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, in order that Jehovah might bring evil upon Absalom.
²³And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose and went to his house, to his city, and gave charge to his household, and hanged himself, and he died; and he was buried in the sepulchre of his father. (2 Sam. 17:14,23)

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Esther 7:10• ¹⁰So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath was appeased. (Esther 7:10)

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Psa. 7:14‑15• ¹⁴Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood:
¹⁵He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made. (Psa. 7:14‑15)

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Psa. 9:15‑16• ¹⁵The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid is their own foot taken.
¹⁶Jehovah is known by the judgment he hath executed: the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. (Psa. 9:15‑16)

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Psa. 141:10• ¹⁰Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that *I* withal pass over. (Psa. 141:10)

J. N. Darby Translation

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is writteng, He who takes the wise in their craftiness.

JND Translation Notes

See Job 5.13.

W. Kelly Translation

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness;