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18 Be careful! Do not think that you are better than you really are. Maybe you think that you are wise, like people today want to be wise. But if you want to become truly wise, be ready for other people to think that you are a fool. 19 People in this world think that some people are wise. But God thinks that those wise people are fools. It says in the Bible:

    ‘God causes the clever thoughts of wise people to confuse them.’[a]
20 In another place, the Bible says:
    ‘The Lord knows that the thoughts of wise people have no value.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:19 See Job 5:13.
  2. 3:20 See Psalms 94:11.