21 Woe to those who are wise in their own opinion
and clever in their own sight.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:21 Lit clever before their face

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes(A)
    and clever in their own sight.

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Punishment for Judah’s Leaders

“How can you claim, ‘We are wise;
the law of the Lord is with us’?
In fact, the lying pen of scribes(A)
has produced falsehood.
The wise will be put to shame;
they will be dismayed and snared.
They have rejected the word of the Lord,
so what wisdom do they really have?

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“‘How can you say, “We are wise,
    for we have the law(A) of the Lord,”
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
    has handled it falsely?
The wise(B) will be put to shame;
    they will be dismayed(C) and trapped.(D)
Since they have rejected the word(E) of the Lord,
    what kind of wisdom(F) do they have?

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For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing,(A) he deceives himself.

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If anyone thinks they are something(A) when they are not, they deceive themselves.(B)

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