Isaiah 5:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Isaiah 5:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 3:18-20
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. …
Proverbs 3:7
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Romans 12:16
Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Proverbs 26:12
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Proverbs 26:16
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

Topics

Backsliders Call Church Conceit Confidence Converts Egotism False Confidence

Commentary

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

(vv. 18-30)

Here are, I. Sins described which will bring judgments upon a people: and this perhaps is not only a charge drawn up against the men of Judah who lived at that time, and the particular articles of that charge, though it may relate primarily to them, but is rather intended for warning to all people, in all ages, to take heed of these sins, as destructive both to particular persons and to communitie…

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

(vv. 21)

21. Fifth Woe--against those who were so “wise in their own eyes” as to think they knew better than the prophet, and therefore rejected his warnings (Is 29:14, 15).