Isaiah 47:10
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10 You felt secure in your wickedness;
you said, “No one sees me”;
your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray,
and you said in your heart,
(A)“I am, and there is no one besides me.”
Isaiah 5:21
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21 Woe to those who are (A)wise in their own eyes,
and shrewd in their own sight!
Isaiah 29:15
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15 Ah, (A)you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel,
whose deeds are (B)in the dark,
and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
Romans 1:22
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22 (A)Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
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Psalm 52:7
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7 “See the man who would not make
God his refuge,
but (A)trusted in the abundance of his riches
and sought refuge in his own destruction!”[a]
Footnotes
- Psalm 52:7 Or in his work of destruction
Ezekiel 8:12
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12 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing (A)in the dark, each (B)in his room of pictures? For they say, (C)‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’”
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Isaiah 59:4
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4 (A)No one enters suit justly;
no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
(B)they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
1 Corinthians 3:19
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19 For (A)the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, (B)“He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
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1 Corinthians 1:19-21
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19 For it is written,
(A)“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20 (B)Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? (C)Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 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[a] to save those who believe.
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- 1 Corinthians 1:21 Or the folly of preaching
Ezekiel 9:9
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9 Then he said to me, (A)“The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. (B)The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For (C)they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’
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Jeremiah 23:24
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24 (A)Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. (B)Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.
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Ezekiel 28:2-6
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2 (A)“Son of man, say to (B)the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God:
(C)“Because your heart is proud,
and (D)you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods,
in the heart of the seas,’
yet (E)you are but a man, and no god,
(F)though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
3 (G)you are indeed wiser (H)than (I)Daniel;
no secret is hidden from you;
4 by your wisdom and your understanding
(J)you have made wealth for yourself,
and have gathered gold and silver
into your treasuries;
5 by your great wisdom in your trade
you have increased your wealth,
and (K)your heart has become proud in your wealth—
6 therefore thus says the Lord God:
(L)Because you make your heart
like the heart of a god,
Isaiah 44:20
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20 (A)He feeds on (B)ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not (C)a lie in my right hand?”
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Ecclesiastes 8:8
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8 No man has power to (A)retain the spirit, (B)or power over the day of death. There is no (C)discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
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Psalm 94:7-9
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7 (A)and they say, “The Lord does not see;
the God of Jacob does not perceive.”
8 (B)Understand, O dullest of the people!
Fools, when will you be wise?
9 (C)He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?
Psalm 64:5
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5 They (A)hold fast to their evil purpose;
they talk of (B)laying snares secretly,
thinking, (C)“Who can see them?”
Isaiah 28:15
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15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
and with Sheol we have an agreement,
when the (A)overwhelming whip passes through
it will not come to us,
for we have made (B)lies our refuge,
and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;
Psalm 62:9-10
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Psalm 10:11
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Job 22:13-14
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13 But you say, (A)‘What does God know?
Can he judge through (B)the deep darkness?
14 (C)Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see,
and he walks on the vault of heaven.’
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