Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a man.’
Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”
“And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.
you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;
They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’
I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, ‘My idol did them, my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.
Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
“No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
The Lord said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
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