Isaiah 5:21

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

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 5:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 knowled...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Woe to [them that are] (b) wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! (b) Who contemn all doctrine and admonition.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

A Series of Denunciations on Various Offenders. This section contains a collection of Woes, originally independent and even now not woven into a si...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

sight. Hebrew "face", put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6, for themselves, or their own view of matters.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 d...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 s...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 i...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 me...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Warning against Pride, Intemperance, and Corruption Isaiah 5:18-30 The wild grapes of Judah are here continued: blind atheism, Isaiah 5:18-20...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 fi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here are accounts of still increasing wickedness, and woes of still increasing misery. Reader, in the present Christ despising generation, doth not t...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 ma...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 t...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Denunciations against Sin. B. C. 758. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 fan...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 p...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

SELF-CONCEIT Isaiah 5:21 . Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight . Self-conceit . I. Its signs: dogmati...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 5:1-23 ISRAEL REBUKED BY THE PARABLE OF A VINEYARD . This chapter stands in a certain sense alone, neither c...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Sixfold Woe upon the Jewish Transgressors
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, arrogant in their self-conceit, an offense which is rebuked also by St. Paul, Romans 12:16 , and pru...

²¹ Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 5:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 5:21