And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them; and I will frustrate their counsel; and they shall inquire of their gods and their images, and them that speak out of the earth, and them that have in them a divining spirit.

The princes of Tanis have failed, and the princes of Memphis are lifted up [with pride], and they shall cause Egypt to wander by tribes.

Therefore behold, I will proceed to remove this people, and I will remove them; and I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will hide the understanding of the prudent.

Who else will frustrate the tokens of those that have divining spirits, and prophecies from the heart of [man]? Turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;

frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:

who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty.

He leads counselors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth.

The Lord frustrates the counsels of the nations; He brings to nought the reasonings of the people, and brings to nought the counsels of princes.

Concerning Edom, thus says the Lord: There is no longer wisdom in Teman, counsel has perished from the wise ones, their wisdom is gone,

There shall be woe upon woe, and there shall be message upon message; and a vision shall be sought from a prophet, but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the prudent I will annul."

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For there are princes in Tannis, evil messengers.

And they went up by the wilderness, and departed as far as Hebron; and there [was] Ahiman, Seshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak. Now Hebron was built seven years before Tanin of Egypt.

the miracles which He did before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Zoan.

How He had worked His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan;

And I will destroy the land of Pathros, and will send fire upon Tanis, and will execute vengeance on Noph.

But I [was] vile and knew not: I became brutish before You.

A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this.

For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men.

Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and [the sheep] have been scattered.

And Pharaoh said to all his servants, Shall we find such a man as this, who has the Spirit of God in him?

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has shown you all these things, there is not a wiser or more prudent man than you.

And Solomon abounded greatly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt.

And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in words and deeds.