¹¹ Only, fools `are' the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, `A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?'

²² and they go up by the south, and come in unto Hebron, and there `are' Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, children of Anak (and Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt),

²² and Moses was taught in all wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in words and in works.

⁴ For in Zoan were his princes, And his messengers reach Hanes.

⁴³ When He set His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan,

³⁰ and the wisdom of Solomon is greater than the wisdom of any of the sons of the east, and than all the wisdom of Egypt;

³⁸ and Pharaoh saith unto his servants, `Do we find like this, a man in whom the spirit of God `is'?'

³⁹ and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;

¹² Before their fathers He hath done wonders, In the land of Egypt -- the field of Zoan.

¹⁹ for it hath been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;'

²⁰ where `is' the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

¹⁴ And I have made Pathros desolate, And I have given fire against Zoan, And I have done judgments in No,

²⁶ Mischief on mischief cometh, and report is on report, And they have sought a vision from a prophet, And law doth perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders,

⁷ Concerning Edom: `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Perished hath counsel from the intelligent? Vanished hath their wisdom?

²¹ For the shepherds have become brutish, And Jehovah they have not sought, Therefore they have not acted wisely, And all their flock is scattered.

¹⁴ Brutish is every man by knowledge, Put to shame is every refiner by a graven image, For false `is' his molten image. And there is no breath in them.

¹⁷ Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.

¹⁰ Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

²² And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

⁶ A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; --

² For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.

³ And emptied out hath been in its midst the spirit of Egypt. And its counsel I swallow up, And they have sought unto the idols, And unto the charmers, And unto those having familiar spirits, And unto the wizards.

¹³ Foolish have been princes of Zoan, Lifted up have been princes of Noph, And they have caused Egypt to err, The chief of her tribes.

¹⁴ Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones hideth itself.'

²⁵ Making void the tokens of devisers, And diviners it maketh mad, Turning the wise backward, And their knowledge it maketh foolish.

¹² Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

¹³ Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,