“ Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! ”
Wo unto them that are wise ... - This is the fifth crime specified. It refers to those who are inflated with a false opinion of their own knowledge, and who are, therefore, self-confident and vai...
Woe to [them that are] (b) wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! (b) Who contemn all doctrine and admonition.
A Series of Denunciations on Various Offenders. This section contains a collection of Woes, originally independent and even now not woven into a single symmetrical address. Whether they come from d...
sight. Hebrew "face", put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6, for themselves, or their own view of matters.
21. Wo to them that are wise in their own eyes! Here he proceeds to rebuke those on whom no instruction can produce a good effect, and who do not allow any wise counsels or godly warnings to...
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, &c.— The fifth crime imputed to the Jews is, an arrogant presumption of the stability of their state, founded in carnal reason, with a contempt of...
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Woe unto (them that are) wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight. Fifth woe against those who wer...
1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it.
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes. — Here again the prophet would seem to have definite individual counsellors in his mind. For such men the ideal of statesmanship was a series of shift...
CHAPTER III THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD, OR TRUE PATRIOTISM THE CONSCIENCE OF OUR COUNTRY'S SINS 735 B.C. Isaiah 5:1-30 ; Isaiah 9:8 - Isaiah 10:4 THE prophecy contained in these Chapter s b...
Warning against Pride, Intemperance, and Corruption Isaiah 5:18-30 The wild grapes of Judah are here continued: blind atheism, Isaiah 5:18-20 ; proud self-conceit, Isaiah 5:21 ; drunkenness,...
With the thought of judgment, and the necessity for it still in mind, the prophet utters his great denunciation. This falls into three parts. The first is a song of accusation. By the simple and fam...
Here are accounts of still increasing wickedness, and woes of still increasing misery. Reader, in the present Christ despising generation, doth not the prophet's representation suit, as though writte...
Woe unto [therm that are] wise in their own eyes ,.... And yet betray such stupidity and sottishness, as to call things by their wrong names; and make such a perverse judgment of them, as before des...
Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Ver. 21. Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes. ] Wiser than David - as the proud prince of Tyre thought hi...
Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes Who, being puffed up with a high opinion of their own wisdom, despise the counsels and instructions of Jehovah by his prophets, and prefer their own vai...
Denunciations against Sin. B. C. 758. 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords o...
That being puffed up with an opinion of their own wisdom, despise the counsels and instructions of God by his prophets, and prefer their own vain fancies before the judgment of the all-wise God, as a...
The Six Woes of God ( Isaiah 5:8-30 ). A series of woes are now declared on the people of Israel because of their various sins. The vineyard had produced smelly grapes, now woe must come on it. Th...
WILD GRAPES Isaiah 5:8-23 . Woe unto them that join house to house, &c. It is important to remember that this whole chapter constitutes one prophecy. Much of the power of its teaching will b...
Isaiah 5:1 . My well-beloved; the Messiah, who certainly was Lord of the Vineyard, and the men of Judah were his pleasant plants. Psalms 80:14-15 ; Ezekiel 17:6 ; Hosea 10:1 ; Matthew 20:1-16...
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes A false estimate of human wisdom The sin reproved (as Calvin well observes) is not mere frivolous self-conceit, but that delusive estimate of human...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 5:1-23 ISRAEL REBUKED BY THE PARABLE OF A VINEYARD . This chapter stands in a certain sense alone, neither closely connected with what precedes nor with what...
A Sixfold Woe upon the Jewish Transgressors
1 Corinthians 3:18-20 ; Job 11:12 ; John 9:41 ; Proverbs 26:12 ; Proverbs 26:16 ; Proverbs 3:7 ; Romans 1:22 ; Romans 11:25 ; Romans 12:16