Jeremiah 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they ...

4:22 KJV

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King James Version - For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
新标点和合本 - 耶和华说：“我的百姓愚顽，不认识我；他们是愚昧无知的儿女，有智慧行恶，没有知识行善。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - “我的百姓愚顽，不认识我；他们是愚昧无知的儿女，有智慧行恶，没有知识行善。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - “我的百姓愚顽，不认识我；他们是愚昧无知的儿女，有智慧行恶，没有知识行善。”
当代译本 - 耶和华说：“我的子民愚顽，不认识我，是蒙昧无知的儿女，善于行恶，不知行善。”
圣经新译本 - “我的子民愚妄，他们连我都不认识，是无知的儿女，没有悟性；他们有智慧行恶，却没有知识行善。”
现代标点和合本 - 耶和华说：“我的百姓愚顽，不认识我。他们是愚昧无知的儿女，有智慧行恶，没有知识行善。”
和合本（拼音版） - 耶和华说：“我的百姓愚顽，不认识我，他们是愚昧无知的儿女，有智慧行恶，没有知识行善。”
New International Version - “My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”
New International Reader's Version - The Lord says, “My people are foolish. They do not know me. They are children who do not have any sense. They have no understanding at all. They are skilled in doing what is evil. They do not know how to do what is good.”
English Standard Version - “For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”
New Living Translation - “My people are foolish and do not know me,” says the Lord. “They are stupid children who have no understanding. They are clever enough at doing wrong, but they have no idea how to do right!”
The Message - “What fools my people are! They have no idea who I am. A company of half-wits, dopes and donkeys all! Experts at evil but klutzes at good.”
Christian Standard Bible - “For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.”
New American Standard Bible - “For My people are foolish, They do not know Me; They are foolish children And have no understanding. They are skillful at doing evil, But they do not know how to do good.”
New King James Version - “For My people are foolish, They have not known Me. They are silly children, And they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they have no knowledge.”
Amplified Bible - “For My people are stupid and foolish,” [says the Lord to Jeremiah]; “They do not know Me; They are foolish children And have no understanding. They are shrewd [enough] to do evil, But they do not know [how] to do good.”
American Standard Version - For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
New English Translation - The Lord answered, “This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”
World English Bible - “For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
新標點和合本 - 耶和華說：我的百姓愚頑，不認識我；他們是愚昧無知的兒女，有智慧行惡，沒有知識行善。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 「我的百姓愚頑，不認識我；他們是愚昧無知的兒女，有智慧行惡，沒有知識行善。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 「我的百姓愚頑，不認識我；他們是愚昧無知的兒女，有智慧行惡，沒有知識行善。」
當代譯本 - 耶和華說：「我的子民愚頑，不認識我，是蒙昧無知的兒女，善於行惡，不知行善。」
聖經新譯本 - “我的子民愚妄，他們連我都不認識，是無知的兒女，沒有悟性；他們有智慧行惡，卻沒有知識行善。”
呂振中譯本 - 『因為我的人民愚妄，連我、他們也不認識；愚頑的兒女啊、他們！無知啊、他們！他們有智巧去作壞事，要怎樣行善、卻不曉得。』
現代標點和合本 - 耶和華說：「我的百姓愚頑，不認識我。他們是愚昧無知的兒女，有智慧行惡，沒有知識行善。」
文理和合譯本 - 我民蒙昧、而不我識、愚蠢之子、罔有聰慧、行惡有智、行善無智、○
文理委辦譯本 - 耶和華曰、我民愚昧、俱不知我、不明孰甚、作惡則智、為善則愚。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主曰、我民愚拙、俱不知我、蒙昧之子、毫無明哲、惟巧於行惡、不知行善、
Nueva Versión Internacional - «Mi pueblo es necio, no me conoce; son hijos insensatos que no tienen entendimiento. Son hábiles para hacer el mal; no saben hacer el bien».
현대인의 성경 - “내 백성은 미련하여 나를 알지 못하며 지각 없는 자식과 같아서 그들에게는 총명함이 없구나. 그들이 악을 행하는 데는 약삭빠르면서도 선을 행하는 데는 무지하다.”
Новый Русский Перевод - – Бестолков Мой народ: Меня он не знает. Глупые они дети; нет у них разума. Они мастера совершать зло, а делать добро не умеют.
Восточный перевод - – Бестолков Мой народ, Меня он не знает. Мой народ – глупые дети; нет у моих детей разума. Они мастера совершать зло, а делать добро не умеют.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - – Бестолков Мой народ, Меня он не знает. Мой народ – глупые дети; нет у моих детей разума. Они мастера совершать зло, а делать добро не умеют.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - – Бестолков Мой народ, Меня он не знает. Мой народ – глупые дети; нет у моих детей разума. Они мастера совершать зло, а делать добро не умеют.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Ah ! Mon peuple est stupide ! Il ne me connaît pas, ce sont des enfants insensés qui ne comprennent rien. Ils n’ont d’habileté ╵que pour faire du mal, mais ils ne savent pas ╵faire ce qui est bien.
リビングバイブル - 「わたしの民が愚かなことをやめるまでだ。彼らは、わたしの言うことを聞こうとしない。理解力のない子で、判断力がない。悪いことをするとなると素早いが、正しいことをする才能など、まるで持ち合わせていない。」
Nova Versão Internacional - “O meu povo é tolo, eles não me conhecem. São crianças insensatas que nada compreendem. São hábeis para praticar o mal, mas não sabem fazer o bem.”
Hoffnung für alle - Der Herr spricht: »Mein Volk ist töricht und verbohrt, sie wollen mich nicht kennen. Sie sind wie unverständige und dumme Kinder. Böses zu tun, damit kennen sie sich aus, aber wie man Gutes tut, das wissen sie nicht!«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - “Dân Ta thật là điên dại, chẳng nhìn biết Ta,” Chúa Hằng Hữu phán. “Chúng ngu muội như trẻ con không có trí khôn. Chúng chỉ đủ khôn ngoan để làm ác chứ chẳng biết cách làm lành!”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “ประชากรของเราโง่เขลา พวกเขาไม่รู้จักเรา พวกเขาเป็นเด็กเหลวไหล ไม่มีความเข้าใจ พวกเขาช่ำชองในการทำชั่ว ทำดีไม่เป็นเลย”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - “ด้วยว่า ชนชาติของเราโง่เขลา พวกเขาไม่รู้จักเรา เขาเป็นเด็กโง่ ไม่มีความเข้าใจ พวกเขาชำนาญในการกระทำความชั่ว และไม่รู้ว่ากระทำความดีได้อย่างไร”

交叉引用

Deuteronomy 32:6 - Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
2 Samuel 13:3 - But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
Matthew 23:16 - Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Matthew 23:17 - Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Matthew 23:18 - And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
Matthew 23:19 - Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
Matthew 23:20 - Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
Matthew 23:21 - And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
Matthew 23:22 - And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
Matthew 23:23 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Matthew 23:24 - Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Matthew 23:25 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Matthew 23:26 - Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Isaiah 29:10 - For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Isaiah 29:11 - And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
Isaiah 29:12 - And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
Luke 16:8 - And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Hosea 4:1 - Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Jeremiah 8:7 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Jeremiah 8:8 - 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.
Jeremiah 8:9 - 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?
2 Samuel 16:21 - And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
2 Samuel 16:22 - So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel 16:23 - And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
Isaiah 1:3 - The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Psalms 14:1 - The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalms 14:2 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Psalms 14:3 - They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms 14:4 - Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:20 - 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?
1 Corinthians 1:21 - 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.
Isaiah 42:19 - Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant?
Isaiah 42:20 - Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
Jeremiah 10:8 - But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Jeremiah 5:4 - Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.
Isaiah 6:9 - And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Isaiah 6:10 - Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Romans 1:28 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Jeremiah 13:23 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Romans 1:22 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Isaiah 27:11 - When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Hosea 5:4 - They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.
John 16:3 - And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Deuteronomy 32:28 - For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
Hosea 4:6 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Micah 2:1 - Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Romans 3:11 - There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Jeremiah 5:21 - Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
Romans 16:19 - For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
1 Corinthians 14:20 - Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

逐节对照

交叉引用

King James Version - For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
新标点和合本 - 耶和华说：“我的百姓愚顽，不认识我；他们是愚昧无知的儿女，有智慧行恶，没有知识行善。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - “我的百姓愚顽，不认识我；他们是愚昧无知的儿女，有智慧行恶，没有知识行善。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - “我的百姓愚顽，不认识我；他们是愚昧无知的儿女，有智慧行恶，没有知识行善。”
当代译本 - 耶和华说：“我的子民愚顽，不认识我，是蒙昧无知的儿女，善于行恶，不知行善。”
圣经新译本 - “我的子民愚妄，他们连我都不认识，是无知的儿女，没有悟性；他们有智慧行恶，却没有知识行善。”
现代标点和合本 - 耶和华说：“我的百姓愚顽，不认识我。他们是愚昧无知的儿女，有智慧行恶，没有知识行善。”
和合本（拼音版） - 耶和华说：“我的百姓愚顽，不认识我，他们是愚昧无知的儿女，有智慧行恶，没有知识行善。”
New International Version - “My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”
New International Reader's Version - The Lord says, “My people are foolish. They do not know me. They are children who do not have any sense. They have no understanding at all. They are skilled in doing what is evil. They do not know how to do what is good.”
English Standard Version - “For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”
New Living Translation - “My people are foolish and do not know me,” says the Lord. “They are stupid children who have no understanding. They are clever enough at doing wrong, but they have no idea how to do right!”
The Message - “What fools my people are! They have no idea who I am. A company of half-wits, dopes and donkeys all! Experts at evil but klutzes at good.”
Christian Standard Bible - “For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.”
New American Standard Bible - “For My people are foolish, They do not know Me; They are foolish children And have no understanding. They are skillful at doing evil, But they do not know how to do good.”
New King James Version - “For My people are foolish, They have not known Me. They are silly children, And they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they have no knowledge.”
Amplified Bible - “For My people are stupid and foolish,” [says the Lord to Jeremiah]; “They do not know Me; They are foolish children And have no understanding. They are shrewd [enough] to do evil, But they do not know [how] to do good.”
American Standard Version - For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
New English Translation - The Lord answered, “This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”
World English Bible - “For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
新標點和合本 - 耶和華說：我的百姓愚頑，不認識我；他們是愚昧無知的兒女，有智慧行惡，沒有知識行善。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 「我的百姓愚頑，不認識我；他們是愚昧無知的兒女，有智慧行惡，沒有知識行善。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 「我的百姓愚頑，不認識我；他們是愚昧無知的兒女，有智慧行惡，沒有知識行善。」
當代譯本 - 耶和華說：「我的子民愚頑，不認識我，是蒙昧無知的兒女，善於行惡，不知行善。」
聖經新譯本 - “我的子民愚妄，他們連我都不認識，是無知的兒女，沒有悟性；他們有智慧行惡，卻沒有知識行善。”
呂振中譯本 - 『因為我的人民愚妄，連我、他們也不認識；愚頑的兒女啊、他們！無知啊、他們！他們有智巧去作壞事，要怎樣行善、卻不曉得。』
現代標點和合本 - 耶和華說：「我的百姓愚頑，不認識我。他們是愚昧無知的兒女，有智慧行惡，沒有知識行善。」
文理和合譯本 - 我民蒙昧、而不我識、愚蠢之子、罔有聰慧、行惡有智、行善無智、○
文理委辦譯本 - 耶和華曰、我民愚昧、俱不知我、不明孰甚、作惡則智、為善則愚。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主曰、我民愚拙、俱不知我、蒙昧之子、毫無明哲、惟巧於行惡、不知行善、
Nueva Versión Internacional - «Mi pueblo es necio, no me conoce; son hijos insensatos que no tienen entendimiento. Son hábiles para hacer el mal; no saben hacer el bien».
현대인의 성경 - “내 백성은 미련하여 나를 알지 못하며 지각 없는 자식과 같아서 그들에게는 총명함이 없구나. 그들이 악을 행하는 데는 약삭빠르면서도 선을 행하는 데는 무지하다.”
Новый Русский Перевод - – Бестолков Мой народ: Меня он не знает. Глупые они дети; нет у них разума. Они мастера совершать зло, а делать добро не умеют.
Восточный перевод - – Бестолков Мой народ, Меня он не знает. Мой народ – глупые дети; нет у моих детей разума. Они мастера совершать зло, а делать добро не умеют.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - – Бестолков Мой народ, Меня он не знает. Мой народ – глупые дети; нет у моих детей разума. Они мастера совершать зло, а делать добро не умеют.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - – Бестолков Мой народ, Меня он не знает. Мой народ – глупые дети; нет у моих детей разума. Они мастера совершать зло, а делать добро не умеют.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Ah ! Mon peuple est stupide ! Il ne me connaît pas, ce sont des enfants insensés qui ne comprennent rien. Ils n’ont d’habileté ╵que pour faire du mal, mais ils ne savent pas ╵faire ce qui est bien.
リビングバイブル - 「わたしの民が愚かなことをやめるまでだ。彼らは、わたしの言うことを聞こうとしない。理解力のない子で、判断力がない。悪いことをするとなると素早いが、正しいことをする才能など、まるで持ち合わせていない。」
Nova Versão Internacional - “O meu povo é tolo, eles não me conhecem. São crianças insensatas que nada compreendem. São hábeis para praticar o mal, mas não sabem fazer o bem.”
Hoffnung für alle - Der Herr spricht: »Mein Volk ist töricht und verbohrt, sie wollen mich nicht kennen. Sie sind wie unverständige und dumme Kinder. Böses zu tun, damit kennen sie sich aus, aber wie man Gutes tut, das wissen sie nicht!«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - “Dân Ta thật là điên dại, chẳng nhìn biết Ta,” Chúa Hằng Hữu phán. “Chúng ngu muội như trẻ con không có trí khôn. Chúng chỉ đủ khôn ngoan để làm ác chứ chẳng biết cách làm lành!”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “ประชากรของเราโง่เขลา พวกเขาไม่รู้จักเรา พวกเขาเป็นเด็กเหลวไหล ไม่มีความเข้าใจ พวกเขาช่ำชองในการทำชั่ว ทำดีไม่เป็นเลย”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - “ด้วยว่า ชนชาติของเราโง่เขลา พวกเขาไม่รู้จักเรา เขาเป็นเด็กโง่ ไม่มีความเข้าใจ พวกเขาชำนาญในการกระทำความชั่ว และไม่รู้ว่ากระทำความดีได้อย่างไร”

Deuteronomy 32:6 - Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
2 Samuel 13:3 - But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
Matthew 23:16 - Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Matthew 23:17 - Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Matthew 23:18 - And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
Matthew 23:19 - Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
Matthew 23:20 - Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
Matthew 23:21 - And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
Matthew 23:22 - And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
Matthew 23:23 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Matthew 23:24 - Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Matthew 23:25 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Matthew 23:26 - Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Isaiah 29:10 - For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Isaiah 29:11 - And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
Isaiah 29:12 - And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
Luke 16:8 - And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Hosea 4:1 - Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Jeremiah 8:7 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Jeremiah 8:8 - 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.
Jeremiah 8:9 - 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?
2 Samuel 16:21 - And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
2 Samuel 16:22 - So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel 16:23 - And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
Isaiah 1:3 - The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Psalms 14:1 - The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalms 14:2 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Psalms 14:3 - They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms 14:4 - Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:20 - 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?
1 Corinthians 1:21 - 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.
Isaiah 42:19 - Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant?
Isaiah 42:20 - Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
Jeremiah 10:8 - But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Jeremiah 5:4 - Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.
Isaiah 6:9 - And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Isaiah 6:10 - Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Romans 1:28 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Jeremiah 13:23 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Romans 1:22 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Isaiah 27:11 - When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Hosea 5:4 - They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.
John 16:3 - And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Deuteronomy 32:28 - For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
Hosea 4:6 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Micah 2:1 - Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Romans 3:11 - There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Jeremiah 5:21 - Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
Romans 16:19 - For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
1 Corinthians 14:20 - Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.