Jeremiah 8:8

⁴¹Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

¹²He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. ¹³He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

¹Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees ²to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

¹⁸Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise. ¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”²⁰And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

²²Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

⁶he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

¹⁹He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

²⁰He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

⁶Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children is their parents.

¹²An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.