Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.

But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.

But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?

And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.

But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;