Great men are not {always} wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt {them}.

He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness {where there is} no way.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue {is} but for a moment.

For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. {of wisdom: Heb. of heart}

Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

Lying lips {are} abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly {are} his delight.

Great men are not {always} wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness {where there is} no way.

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. {in vain made...: or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood}

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?

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

With us {are} both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

These {were} the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.