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How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.

How do ye say {H559}, We are wise {H2450}, and the law {H8451} of the LORD {H3068} is with us? Lo, certainly {H403} in vain {H8267} made {H6213} he it; the pen {H5842} of the scribes {H5608} is in vain {H8267}.

"'How can you say, "We are wise; ADONAI's Torah is with us," when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has turned it into falsehood?

How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?

How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely.

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Cross-References

  • Job 5:12 (5 votes)

    He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.

  • Job 5:13 (5 votes)

    He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

  • Isaiah 10:1 (5 votes)

    ¶ Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;

  • Isaiah 10:2 (5 votes)

    To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!

  • John 9:41 (4 votes)

    Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

  • 1 Corinthians 3:18 (4 votes)

    ¶ Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

  • 1 Corinthians 3:20 (4 votes)

    And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.