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Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
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The Sin of Self-Conceit
Commentators agree that this woe condemns intellectual pride and self-conceit. John Calvin explains that this attitude is destructive because the 'beginning of piety is willingness to be taught.' Albert Barnes adds that such pride makes people unwilling to be instructed by God's prophets because they are inflated with a false opinion of their own knowledge and wisdom.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Woe to them who are wise ... – This is the fifth crime specified. It refers to those who are inflated with a false opinion of their own know…
19th Century
Anglican
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes. —Here again the prophet would seem to have definite individual counsellors…
16th Century
Protestant
Wo to them that are wise in their own eyes! Here he proceeds to rebuke those on whom no instruction can produce a good effect, and who do …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes And yet betray such stupidity and sottishness, as to call things by their…
Here is a woe to those who set their hearts on the wealth of the world. It is not that it is sinful for those who have a house and a field to purch…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Woe to you that call evil good. Here he sets out the vanity related to excusing sin.
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