1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
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- Job 5:13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
- Psalm 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
- 1 Corinthians 1:19–20 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?