wisdom

¶ For thou hast trusted in thy wickednesse: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisedome and thy knowledge, it hath peruerted thee, and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else besides me.

1611 marginal noteOr, caused thee to turne away.

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken; loe, they haue reiected the word of the LORD, and what wisedome is in them?

1611 marginal noteOr, haue they beene ashamed, &c.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the wisedome of what thing.

1611 marginal noteCha. 6.15.

¶ Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches.

1611 marginal note1.Cor.1.31. 2.cor. 10.17.

Hee hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauens by his discretion.

1611 marginal noteGen.1.6. chap.51.15

¶ Concerning Edom thus saith the LORD of hosts, Is wisedome no more in Teman? is counsell perished from the prudent? is their wisedom vanished?

1611 marginal noteObad.ver.8.

Hee hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his vnderstanding.

1611 marginal noteGen.6.1.6. chap.10.12. &c.

With thy wisedome and with thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and siluer into thy treasures.

By thy great wisedome, and by thy traffique hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted vp because of thy riches.

1611 marginal noteHeb. by the greatnesse of thy wisedome.

Behold therefore, I will bring strangers vpon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beautie of thy wisedome, & they shall defile thy brightnesse.

Sonne of man, take vp a lamentation vpon the king of Tyrus, and say vnto him, Thus saith the LORD God; Thou sealest vp the summe, full of wisedome and perfect in beautie.