Isaiah 19:11
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11 Clearly the princes of Zoan are foolish;
the wise counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the sages,
a descendant of ancient kings”?(A)
Numbers 13:22
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22 They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron, and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the Anakites, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)(A)
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Acts 7:22
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22 So Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.(A)
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Isaiah 30:4
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4 For though his officials are at Zoan
and his envoys reach Hanes,(A)
Psalm 78:43
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43 when he displayed his signs in Egypt
and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
1 Kings 4:30
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30 so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.(A)
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Psalm 78:12
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12 In the sight of their ancestors he worked marvels
in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.(A)
Genesis 41:38-39
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38 Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone else like this, one in whom is the spirit of God?”(A) 39 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you.
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1 Corinthians 1:19-20
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19 For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?(A)
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Ezekiel 30:14
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14 I will make Pathros a desolation
and will set fire to Zoan
and will execute acts of judgment on Thebes.(A)
Ezekiel 7:26
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26 Disaster comes upon disaster;
rumor follows rumor;
they shall keep seeking a vision from the prophet;
instruction shall perish from the priest
and counsel from the elders.(A)
Jeremiah 49:7
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Judgment on Edom
7 Concerning Edom.
Thus says the Lord of hosts:
Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom vanished?(A)
Jeremiah 10:21
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21 For the shepherds are stupid
and do not inquire of the Lord;
therefore they have not prospered,
and all their flock is scattered.(A)
Jeremiah 10:14
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14 Everyone is stupid and without knowledge;
goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols,
for their images are false,
and there is no breath in them.(A)
Isaiah 44:25
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25 who frustrates the omens of soothsayers
and makes fools of diviners;
who turns back the wise
and makes their knowledge foolish;(A)
Isaiah 29:14
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14 so I will again do
amazing things with this people,
shocking and amazing.
The wisdom of their wise shall perish,
and the discernment of the discerning shall be hidden.(A)
Isaiah 19:13
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13 The princes of Zoan have become fools,
and the princes of Memphis are deluded;
those who are the cornerstones of its tribes
have led Egypt astray.(A)
Isaiah 19:3
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3 the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out,
and I will confound their plans;
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead
and the ghosts and the familiar spirits;(A)
Proverbs 30:2
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2 Surely I am too stupid to be human;
I do not have human understanding.(A)
Psalm 92:6
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6 The dullard cannot know;
the stupid cannot understand this:
Psalm 73:22
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22 I was stupid and ignorant;
I was like a brute beast toward you.(A)
Psalm 33:10
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10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.(A)
Job 12:17
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17 He leads counselors away stripped
and makes fools of judges.(A)
Job 5:12-13
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12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.(A)
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
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