Isaiah 5:21
Good News Translation
You are doomed! You think you are wise, so very clever.

New Revised Standard Version
Ah, you who are wise in your own eyes, and shrewd in your own sight!

Contemporary English Version
You think you are clever and smart.

New American Bible
Ah! Those who are wise in their own eyes, prudent in their own view!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

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Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

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Job 11:12 A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt.

Proverbs 3:7 For it shall be health to thy navel, and moistening to thy bones.

Proverbs 26:12,16 Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him. . . .

John 9:41 Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin: but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth.

Romans 1:22 For, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

Romans 11:25 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery (lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.

Romans 12:16 Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

1 Corinthians 3:18-20 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. . . .

in their own sight.

Context
Woes to the Wicked
20Woe to you 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. 21Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.22Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.…
Cross References
Romans 12:16
Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Proverbs 3:7
For it shall be health to thy navel, and moistening to thy bones.

Isaiah 37:23
Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 40:23
He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 47:10
And thou hast trusted in thy wickedness, and hast said: There is none that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and, thy knowledge, this hath deceived thee. And thou hast said in thy heart: I am, and besides me there is no other.

Isaiah 5:20
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