Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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

without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful:

Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

But they shall proceed no further. For their folly shall be evident unto all men, as theirs also came to be.

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them .

O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?

and again, The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.

but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;