1 Corinthians 1:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

1 Corinthians 1:19 —

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Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Job 5:12-13
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. …
Isaiah 19:11
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?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-31)

We have here, I. The manner in which Paul preached the gospel, and the cross of Christ: Not with the wisdom of words (1 Cor. 1:17), the enticing words of man’s wisdom (1 Cor. 2:4), the flourish of oratory, or the accuracies of philosophical language, upon which the Greeks so much prided themselves, and which seem to have been the peculiar recommendations of some of the heads of the faction in this…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. I will destroy--slightly altered from the Septuagint, Is 29:14. The Hebrew is, “The wisdom of the wise shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.” Paul by inspiration gives the sense of the Spirit, by making God the cause of their wisdom perishing, &c., “I will destroy,” &c. understanding of the prudent--literally, “of the understanding ones.”