Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts about a gift not given.
Romans 1:22 - Tree of Life Version Claiming to be wise, they became fools. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Claiming to be wise, they became fools [professing to be smart, they made simpletons of themselves]. American Standard Version (1901) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Common English Bible While they were claiming to be wise, they made fools of themselves. Catholic Public Domain Version For, while proclaiming themselves to be wise, they became foolish. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. |
Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts about a gift not given.
Do you see one wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than him.
He is feeding on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, so he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t what is in my right hand a fraud?”
You felt secure in your wickedness, You said, “No one sees me.” Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, so you have said in your heart, “I am—there is no one else beside me!”
Everyone is stupid, ignorant. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idol! His molten image is a fraud. There is no breath in them.
“For My people are foolish. They do not know Me. They are senseless children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they do not know.”
But if your eye is bad, your body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
For I do not want you, brothers and sisters, to be ignorant of this mystery—lest you be wise in your own eyes—that a partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;