Isaiah 5:21
Woe to you who are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own sight!
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
In Context
22Woe to you who are powerful at drinking wine, who are strong men in contriving inebriation!
Cross References
Job 11:12A vain man is lifted up in arrogance, and he thinks that he is born free like a wild ass’s colt.
Proverbs 26:12Have you seen a man who seems wise to himself? There will be greater hope held for the unwise than for him.
Isaiah 10:13For 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.
Romans 1:22For, while proclaiming themselves to be wise, they became foolish.
Romans 12:16Be of the same mind toward one another: not savoring what is exalted, but consenting in humility. Do not choose to seem wise to yourself.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:19-30
Denunciations against Sin. ( b. c. 758.) 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in… Read the whole commentary →