Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

自称为聪明，反成了愚拙，

他们自以为聪明，反成了愚昧，

他们自以为聪明，反成了愚昧，

他们自以为聪明，其实愚不可及，

他们自以为是聪明的，却成了愚蠢的。

他们自称是有智慧的，却成了愚拙，

自稱為聰明，反成了愚拙，

他們自以為聰明，反成了愚昧，

他們自以為聰明，反成了愚昧，

他們自以為聰明，其實愚不可及，

他們自以為是聰明的，卻成了愚蠢的。

他們自稱為有智慧，反而成了愚拙，

他們自稱是有智慧的，卻成了愚拙，

自稱為智、適成為愚、

自稱為智、適成愚魯、

自稱為智、反成愚魯、

若輩自誇明哲、轉成下愚；

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

They claimed to be wise. But they made fools of themselves.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Professing to be wise, they became fools,

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Claiming to be wise, they became fools

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift[ is like] clouds and wind without rain.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?[ there is] more hope of a fool than of him.

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

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.The wise[ men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom[ is] in them?

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?For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

Every man is brutish in[ his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image[ is] falsehood, and[ there is] no breath in them.

For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I[ am], and none else beside me.

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great[ is] that darkness!

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.For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.