But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. Treasury of Scripture do ye return Job 6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my righteousness is in it. Malachi 3:18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not. for I Job 17:4 For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them. Job 15:9 What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us? Job 32:9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. Job 42:7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you... 1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 1 Corinthians 6:5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brothers?
Context Job Appeals From Men to God
1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 2Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation? 3Lay down now, put me in a surety with you; who is he that will strike hands with me? 4For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them. 5He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. 7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. 8Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. 9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. 10But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. 12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. 13If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister. 15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.
Darby Bible Translation
But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.
King James Bible
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
Young's Literal Translation
Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
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