Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings”?
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the princes
- Isaiah 19:3, 13; Isaiah 29:14; Isaiah 44:25; Job 5:12, 13; Job 12:17; Psalm 33:10; Jeremiah 49:7; Ezekiel 7:26; 1 Corinthians 1:19, 20
- Zoan
- Isaiah 30:4; Numbers 13:22; Psalm 78:12, 43; Ezekiel 30:14
- brutish
- Psalm 73:22; Psalm 92:6; Proverbs 30:2; Jeremiah 10:14, 21
- I am
- Genesis 41:38, 39; 1 Kings 4:30; Acts 7:22