Isaiah 5:21

Catholic Public Domain Version

Woe to you who are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own sight!

Cross References

Job 11:12

A vain man is lifted up in arrogance, and he thinks that he is born free like a wild ass's colt.

Proverbs 26:12

Have you seen a man who seems wise to himself? There will be greater hope held for the unwise than for him.

Proverbs 26:16

The lazy one seems wiser to himself than seven men speaking judgments.

Proverbs 3:7

Do not seem wise to yourself. Fear God, and withdraw from evil.

Isaiah 10:13

For he has said: "I have acted with the strength of my own hand, and I have understood with my own wisdom, and I have removed the limits of the people, and I have plundered their leaders, and, like one with power, I have pulled down those residing on high.

Isaiah 37:23

Whom have you insulted? And whom have you blasphemed? And against whom have you lifted up your voice and raised up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 40:23

He has brought those who examine what is secret to nothingness. He has brought the judges of the earth to emptiness.

Isaiah 47:10

And you have trusted in your malice, and you have said: "There is no one who sees me." Your wisdom and your knowledge, these have deceived you. And you have said in your heart: "I am, and beside me there is no other."

John 9:41

Jesus said to them: "If you were blind, you would not have sin. Yet now you say, 'We see.' So your sin persists."

Romans 1:22

For, while proclaiming themselves to be wise, they became foolish.

Romans 11:25

For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery (lest you seem wise only to yourselves) that a certain blindness has occurred in Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has arrived.

Romans 12:16

Be of the same mind toward one another: not savoring what is exalted, but consenting in humility. Do not choose to seem wise to yourself.