The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?
They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled.
For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?”
For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flo
A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.
who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into
Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are
The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egyp
Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intell
He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
I will lay waste Pathros, set fire to Zoan, and execute judgment on Thebes.
The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.
Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they wil
Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction fr