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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 craftiness,{HR}And the counsel of the cunning is overturned. (Job 5:13)

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1 Cor. 1:19‑20• ¹⁹For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the understanding ones.
²⁰Where [is the] wise? where scribe? where disputer of this age? Hath 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 full-grown, but wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age that come to nought. (1 Cor. 2:6)

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Isa. 19:11‑14• ¹¹The princes of Zoan [are] utterly fools; the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh 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 tell thee now; 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 marvelously among this people, to do marvelously even with wonder; and the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent ones shall be hid.
¹⁵Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel far from Jehovah! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
¹⁶Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be counted as clay; so that the thing made 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• ²⁵that 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, having known God, they glorified him not as God nor were thankful, but became vain in their thoughts, and their heart void of understanding was darkened.
²²Professing to be wise, they became fools, (Rom. 1:21‑22)

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Job 5:13• ¹³He taketh the wise in their craftiness,{HR}And the counsel of the cunning is overturned. (Job 5:13)

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

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

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

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2 Sam. 16:23• ²³{i}And 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.{/i} (2 Sam. 16:23)

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2 Sam. 17:14,23• ¹⁴{i}And 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.{/i}
²³{i}And{/i} when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and 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. Then was the king's wrath pacified. (Esther 7:10)

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Psa. 7:14‑15• ¹⁴Behold he travaileth [with] iniquity,{HR}And he hath conceived mischief and brought forth falsehood.
¹⁵He hath dug a pit, and enlarged it,{HR}And he falleth into the pit which he maketh. (Psa. 7:14‑15)

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Psa. 9:15‑16• ¹⁵The Gentiles have sunk into the pit [which] they made;{HR}In the very net [which] they hid is their foot taken.
¹⁶Jehovah is become known;{HR}He hath executed judgment:{HR}In the work of his own hands the wicked [man] is ensnared.{HR}Higgayon. Selah. (Psa. 9:15‑16)

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Psa. 141:10• ¹⁰Let the wicked fall together into their own nets,{HR}While for my part I escape. (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;