Jeremiah 9:23 Cross References - Thomson

²³ [J] Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom: nor the mighty man boast of his strength; neither let the rich man boast of his riches:

¹⁷ Say not in thy heart, My own power, and the strength of my own hand bath procured me this great wealth:

⁴ there came forth a mighty man from the line of the Philistines. His name was Goliath, of Geth. His height was four cubits and a span. ⁵ And he had a helmet on his head, and was clad with a breast plate of chain work; and the weight of his breast plate was five thousand shekels. It was of brass and steel: ⁶ and the greaves on his legs were of brass; and he had a target of brass between his shoulders. ⁷ And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam: and his javelin was six hundred shekels of iron. And his armour bearer walked before him. ⁸ And he stood, and cried with a loud voice, to the line of Israel, and said to them, Why come ye out to array yourselves for battle against us? Am not I a Philistine; and you Hebrews the servants of Saul? Chuse out for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me. ⁹ And if he be able to fight with me, and kill me, we will be your slaves; but if I prevail, and kill him, you shall be our slaves, and serve us. ¹⁰ Then the Philistine said, Behold I have now this day defied the army of Israel. Give me a man that we may fight at single combat.

⁴² When Goliath saw David, He despised him exceedingly; for he was a mere youth, and was of a ruddy complexion with beautiful eyes.

¹⁰ Son Ader sent to him saying, God do so to me and more also, if I do not make Samaria a jakes for all the people of my infantry. ¹¹ In reply to which the king of Israel said, Enough! let not him who is crooked boast like him who is straight.

¹² Who changeth the counsels of the crafty, so that their hands can perform no enterprise. ¹³ Who entangleth the wise in their wisdom, and defeateth the counsel of the artful. ¹⁴ In the day time, darkness shall meet them, that they may grope at noon day as at night,

²⁴ If I have made gold my measure, or placed my confidence in precious stones: ²⁵ or if I have exulted because my wealth was great, or laid my hand on what was not counted out to me:

¹⁶ A king is not saved because of a numerous army: nor can a giant be saved by his abundant strength. ¹⁷ A horse is a false thing for safety; nor can he with all his power save himself.

⁶ Some put confidence in their power: and some boast of the abundance of their wealth. ⁷ A brother is not redeemed. Is a man to redeem himself? ⁸ He cannot give to God an atonement for himself; and the price for the redemption of his life: ⁹ Though he laboured for the age that he may live to the end. Shall he therefore not see corruption? ¹⁰ When he seeth the wise dying; together the foolish and senseless shall perish. And they shall leave their wealth to others, ¹¹ [a] But their graves shall be their houses forever; their dwelling places to all generations. On these parcels of earth, they have put their names, ¹² [b] When a man, who is in honour, hath not understanding: he hath been compared to the brute beasts and is like them; ¹³ this very way of theirs was to them a stumbling block; and after this shall it with their mouth be praised?

¹⁶ Fear not when a man groweth rich, nor when the glory of his house is increased. ¹⁷ For when he dieth he can carry nothing away: nor will this glory of his descend with him. ¹⁸ Because during this life his soul shall be blessed; let him praise thee when thou doest him a benefit.

⁶ The righteous will see indeed and be afraid. And they will laugh at him and say, ⁷ "Behold the man who made not God his strength: and trusted in the abundance of his wealth; and strengthened himself in his vanity!

¹⁰ Trust not in oppression; nor eagerly covet plunder; if riches flow in, set not your heart on them.

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¹³ I saw indeed that there is an advantage in wisdom above folly, like the advantage of light above darkness. ¹⁴ The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness. Nevertheless I knew that one event will happen to them all. ¹⁵ Therefore I said in my heart, As the same event will happen to me as happeneth to the fool, why have I studied wisdom? Why communed abundantly with my heart? Because even this is vanity; [since out of an abundance the fool speaketh] ¹⁶ because there is no remembrance forever of the wise man more than of the fool [seeing the days are now coming when all shall be for gotten and the wise must die as well as the fool]

¹⁹ and who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? Now if he hath power over all my labour for which I have toiled and in which I have displayed wisdom under the sun; surely this is vanity.

¹¹ Having turned about, I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty; nay not even bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding; nor favour to men of knowledge; that time and chance will happen to them all as forming one whole.

²¹ Woe to them who are wise in their own conceit, and in their own eyes prudent.

⁸ Even though they should say to him, Thou alone art chief.

¹² But it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath accomplished his whole work on mount Sion and Jerusalem; that I will cast a look on the stout heart; on the chief ruler of the Assyrians, and on the loftiness of the glory of his eyes. ¹³ For he said, "With this power I will perform exploits; and by the wisdom of mine understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and make a prey of their strength,

⁸ were you now in close connexion with my master the king of the Assyrians; and were I to give you two thousand horses; could you put riders on them? ⁹ How then can you revolt and affect to be petty princes. Those are reduced to slavery who have trusted in the Egyptians for charioteers and cavalry.

¹⁹ Their silver shall be thrown in the streets; and their gold shall be disregarded. Their souls shall not be satisfied; nor shall their bellies be filled: because the punishment of their iniquities is come.

² and thou son of man say to the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord, Because thy heart is elated, and thou hast said, "I am a God."" I inhabit the dwelling of a god in the heart of the sea." Now as for thee thou art a man and not a God; though thou hast set thy heart as the heart of a God. ³ Art thou wiser than Daniel? Have not wise men taught thee with their knowledge? ⁴ Didst thou by thy knowledge, or thine own understanding, procure for thyself power and gold and silver in thy treasuries? ⁵ By thy great skill and thy traffic thou hast increased thy wealth; and with thy wealth thy heart is elated; ⁶ therefore, Thus saith the Lord, Since thou hast set thy heart as the heart of a God; ⁷ for this, behold I will bring against thee strange ravagers from the nations, and they shall unsheath their swords against thee and against the beauty of thy wisdom; ⁸ and they shall bring down thy beauty to destruction and trample thee down; and thou shalt die the death of wounded men in the heart of the sea ⁹ Wilt thou say, "I am a God," in the presence of them who are slaying thee? Thou indeed art but a man and not a God.

⁹ And the land of Egypt shall be a destruction and a desolation; and they shall know that I am the Lord. Because thou saidst, "These rivers are mine; I made them;"

¹⁵ Now therefore are you ready, when you hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sambuk and of the psaltery and symphony and all kinds of musical instruments, to fall prostrate and worship the golden image which I have made? For if you do not worship you shall, that very hour, be cast into the furnace of fire, which is heated. And what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands?

³⁰ he spake, saying, Is not this the great Babylon which I have built for the house of a kingdom, by the might of my power, for the display of my glory? ³¹ While the word was yet in the king's mouth, there came a voice from heaven, To thee Nabuchodonosar it is said, the regal power is gone from thee

³⁷ Now therefore I Nabuchodonosar praise and extol and glorify the king of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are judgments and all them who walk in pride he can abase.

¹⁸ O king, God, the Most High gave to Nabuchodonosar thy father this kingdom and majesty and glory and honour. ¹⁹ And because of the majesty which he gave him, all the peoples, tribes and languages trembled and were struck with awe at his presence. Whom he would he slew, and whom he would he smote, and whom he would he set up, and whom he would he put down. ²⁰ But when his heart became elated and his spirit emboldened to shew its arrogance, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom and his glory was taken from him; ²¹ and he was driven from among men; and his heart was disposed to associate with the beasts; and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and he was fed with grass like an ox; and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, till he was made to know that the Most High God ruleth over the kingdom of men and can give it to whom he will. ²² Now thou, Baltasar, his son, hast not therefore humbled thy heart before this God. Hast thou not known all these things? ²³ Yet thou hast exalted thyself against the Lord God of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles and thy concubines and thy wives have drunk wine out of them, and thou hast praised the gods of gold and silver and brass and iron and wood and stone which neither see nor hear, nor understand: but the God in whose hand is thy breath and all thy ways; him thou hast not glorified.

¹⁴ so that flight shall perish from the swift runner; and the strong will not be master of his strength; and the warrior shall not save his life. ¹⁵ And the bowman shall not stand, nor shall the swift of foot escape; even the horseman shall not save his life. ¹⁶ The mighty will not know how to act with their forces: the naked shall, in that day, pursue, saith the Lord.

¹⁸ . And their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of the indignation of the Lord. By the fire of his zeal the whole land shall be consumed, for he will bring speedy destruction on all the inhabitants of this land.

²⁴ At these words of his, his disciples being astonished, Jesus, addressing them again, saith, Children, How difficult a thing it is for them who trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul; Soul, thou hast many good things laid up in store for many years: take thine ease; eat; drink; and be joyful. ²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided?

²² upon which the people shouted, It is the voice of a god and not of a man! ²³ And instantly an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory. And being gnawed by worms he died.

²² pretending to be wise, they became fools,

¹⁹ For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and abolish the understanding of the prudent." ²⁰ Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this age? Hath not God shewn the wisdom of this world to be folly? ²¹ For when, amidst the wisdom of God, the world did not, by means of that wisdom, know God; it pleased God by the foolishness of this proclamation to save them who believe;

²⁷ but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world God hath made choice of to put to shame the strong ²⁸ and the ignoble of this world, and those of no account, God hath chosen; nay, the very nothings, to put a stop to the operation of the things which are, ²⁹ that no flesh might boast in his presence.

¹⁸ Whosoever you are, let no one deceive himself. If am one among you seemeth to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God: for it is written, He entangleth the wise in their craft." ²⁰ And again, "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vain."

¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evil; to gratify which, some have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter zeal, and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which cometh down from above; but that which is of an earthly, sensual, and devilish nature. ¹⁶ For where there is a zeal with strife, there will be confusion, and every thing which is bad.