Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Corinthians 3:19-20

"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness: and again, The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise that they are vain." — 1 Corinthians 3:19-20 (ASV)

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

What a wonderfully small difference there is, after all, between the very cultured man, who thinks himself so, and the man who makes no pretense to it whatever! The knowledge which the wisest man has is about equal, in the presence of God, to the knowledge which one child of three years old has over a child of two years old.

To God we must all seem masses of ignorance; and if you could put the whole British Association and all the doctors of divinity, and all the LLDs, and all the men of high degrees together, the things they did not know would make a great many volumes, and the things they did know would not go very far. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vain.