Isaiah 19:11

Egypt's celebrated counselors are exposed as fools, their boasted wisdom worthless. It matters because human wisdom apart from God cannot stand before his purposes.

Cross-references · 23

• Num 13:22They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
• Acts 7:22So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
• Isa 30:4For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
• 1 Kgs 4:30Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
• Ps 78:43when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
• Ps 78:12He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
• Gen 41:38–39So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?”
• Jer 49:7Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?
• Jer 10:14Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
• Job 5:12–13He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
• Isa 19:13The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.
• 1 Cor 1:19–20For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
• Ps 33:10The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
• Jer 10:21For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.
• Ps 73:22I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
• Isa 19:3Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.
• Ezek 30:14I will lay waste Pathros, set fire to Zoan, and execute judgment on Thebes.
• Job 12:17He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.
• Isa 29:14Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”
• Ezek 7:26Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
• Prov 30:2Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.
• Ps 92:6A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
• Isa 44:25who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,

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