Jeremiah 9:23 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²³ They are framed after the likeness of a palm tree, and shall not speak: they must be carried to be removed, because they cannot go. Therefore, fear them not, for they can neither do evil nor good.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise and skillful person glory and boast in his wisdom and skill; let not the mighty and powerful person glory and boast in his strength and power; let not the person who is rich [in physical gratification and earthly wealth] glory and boast in his [temporal satisfactions and earthly] riches;

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Thus saith Jehovah, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;

Common English Bible

²³ The LORD proclaims: the learned should not boast of their knowledge, nor warriors boast of their might, nor the rich boast of their wealth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Thus says the Lord: "The wise man should not glory in his wisdom, and the strong man should not glory in his strength, and the rich man should not glory in his riches.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:

Jeremiah 9:23 Cross References

Job 32:13

9 Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels.

Job 41:15

2 In his neck strength shall dwell, and want goeth before his face.

Psalm 33:5

2 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance.

Psalm 34:3

0 The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.

Psalm 44:9

6 All the day long my shame is before me : and the confusion of my face hath covered me,

Psalm 62:10

Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.

Proverbs 11:4

1 By the blessing of the just the city shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the wicked it shall be overthrown.

Proverbs 21:30

It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 3:5

2 For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth: and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

6 God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

8 Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.

Isaiah 10:8

6 Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones: and under his glory shall be kindled a burning, as it were the burning of a fire.

Isaiah 20:5

And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.

Isaiah 47:10

The former things of old I have declared, and they went forth out of my mouth, and I have made them to be heard: I did them suddenly and they came to pass.

Isaiah 5:21

9 Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it.

Jeremiah 31:34

At that time the army of the king o Babylon besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremias the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the house of the king of Juda.

Jeremiah 48:14

2 And upon Dibon, and upon Nabo, and upon the house of Deblathaim,

Jeremiah 48:7

5 Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her choice young men are gone down to the slaughter: saith the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 49:4

2 For thus saith the Lord: Behold they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup, shall certainly drink: and shalt thou come off as innocent? thou shalt not come off as innocent, but drinking thou shalt drink.

Ezekiel 29:9

7 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first of the month: that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 7:19

7 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with sorrow, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled. I will do to them according to their way, and will judge them according to their judgments: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Daniel 3:15

3 But these three men, that is, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, fell down bound in the midst of the furnace of burning fire.

Daniel 4:37

Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could neither read the writing, nor declare the interpretation to the king.

Micah 6:8

6 For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according to their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

Zephaniah 1:18

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the blasphemies of the children of Ammon, with which they reproached my people, and have magnified themselves upon their borders.

Mark 10:24

2 And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem: and Jesus went before them, and they were astonished; and following were afraid. And taking again the twelve, he began to tell them the things that should befall him.

Romans 1:22

0 Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

1 Corinthians 1:31

But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.

Deuteronomy 8:17

A People great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom thou hast seen, and heard of, against whom no man is able to stand.

Philippians 3:10

9 Whose end is destruction; whose God is their belly; and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things.

Philippians 3:8

7 Be ye followers of me, brethren, and observe them who walk so as you have our model.

1 Timothy 6:10

9 To lay up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the true life.

1 Samuel 17:42

7 And all this assembly shall know, that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for it is his battle, and he will deliver you into our hands.