Isaiah 19:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹¹ The princes of Zoan are complete fools; Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice! How can you say to Pharaoh, ‘I am one  of the wise, a student of eastern   kings’?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ The princes of Zoan [ancient capital of the Pharaohs] are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become witless (stupid). How can you say to Pharaoh, I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Common English Bible

¹¹ The officials of Tanis are fools; the wisest of Pharaoh’s counselors give stupid advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I’m a wise person, one of the ancient kings”?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ The leaders of Tanis are foolish. The wise counselors of Pharaoh have given foolish counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh: "I am the son of wisemen, the son of the kings of antiquity?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel. How will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Isaiah 19:11 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 4:30

Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East,  greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 5:10

So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,

Job 12:17

He leads counsellors away barefoot and makes judges go mad.

Exodus 8:14

They piled them in countless heaps, and there was a terrible odour in the land.

Exodus 8:4

The frogs will come up on you, your people, and all your officials.’

Proverbs 30:2

I am more stupid than any other person, and I lack a human’s ability to understand.

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan have been fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. Her tribal chieftains have led Egypt astray.

Isaiah 19:3

Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it, and I will frustrate its plans. Then they will enquire of worthless idols, ghosts, mediums, and spiritists.

Isaiah 29:14

Therefore, I will again confound these people with wonder after wonder. The wisdom of their wise will vanish, and the perception of their perceptive will be hidden.

Isaiah 30:4

For though his  princes are at Zoan and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,

Isaiah 44:25

who destroys the omens of the false prophets and makes fools of diviners; who confounds the wise and makes their knowledge foolishness;

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image, for his cast images are a lie; there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the shepherds are stupid: They don’t seek the  Lord. Therefore they have not prospered, and their whole flock is scattered.

Jeremiah 46:17

There they will cry out, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he let the opportune moment pass.’

Jeremiah 49:7

About Edom,  this is what the Lord of Armies says: Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom rotted away?

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and snared. They have rejected the word of the  Lord, so what wisdom do they really have?

Ezekiel 28:17

Your heart became proud because of your beauty; For the sake of your splendour you corrupted your wisdom. So I threw you down to the ground; I made you a spectacle before kings.

Ezekiel 30:14

I will make Pathros   desolate, set fire to Zoan, and execute judgements on Thebes.

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster after disaster will come, and there will be rumour after rumour. Then they will look for a vision from a prophet, but instruction will perish from the priests and counsel from the elders.

Obadiah 1:7

Everyone who has a treaty with you will drive you to the border; everyone at peace with you will deceive and conquer you. Those who eat your bread will set  a trap for you. He will be unaware of it.

Obadiah 1:8

In that day – this is the  Lord’s declaration – will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom and those who understand from the hill country of Esau?

Numbers 13:22

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak,  were living. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan  in Egypt.

Acts 7:22

So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his speech and actions.