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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 5:21

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 the divine wisdom, and of the faithful admonitions of the ministers of God. See Romans 11:25; Romans 12:16. This was remarkably the characteristic of the Pharisees in our Saviour's time. See Matthew 11:25 and John 9:39; John 9:41.

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See also Isaiah 5:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 vain. Th...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • 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 IN THEIR OWN SIGHT. Fifth woe against those who were so...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:21 esteem! (a-16) Lit 'before their faces.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • 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 men the ideal of statesmanship was a series of shifts a...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֹ֖וי חֲכָמִ֣ים בְּ עֵֽינֵיהֶ֑ם וְ נֶ֥גֶד פְּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • 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; proud self-conceit, Isaiah 5:21; drunkenness, Isaiah 5:...

  • 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 first is a song of accusation. By the simple and famil...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Woe to [them that are] (b) wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! (b) Who contemn all doctrine and admonition....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Conceits. Blind guides, Matthew xv. 14._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 make such a perverse judgment of them, as before descri...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • 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 Jehovah by his prophets, and prefer their own vain...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A SIXFOLD WOE UPON THE JEWISH TRANSGRESSORS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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 PRUDENT IN THEIR OWN SIGHT, such people being beyond the...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    IN THEIR OWN SIGHT: before their face...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-23 Here is a woe to those who set their hearts on the wealth of the world. Not that it is sinful for those who have a house and a field to purchase another; but the fault is, that they never know w...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The 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 fancies before the judgment of the all-wise God, as ap...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 5:21 Woe H1945 wise H2450 eyes H5869 prudent H995 (H8737) sight H6440 wise - Job 11:12;...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIX WOES OF GOD (ISAIAH 5:8). 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. They are a...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Parable of Jehovah's vineyard and the six woes upon Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God expects vineyard fruit from those who enjoy vineyard privileges, not the mere leaves of profess...

  • 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; Ezekiel 17:6; Ho

  • 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 self-conceit, but that delusive estimate of human wi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 5:1 Isaiah’s introductory diagnosis of Judah’s spiritual decline (chs. Isaiah 1:1) concludes with a description of his generation’s apostasy and its consequences. The chapter is...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 5:18 Isaiah issues four laments (WOE) over God’s people. ⇐ ⇔

  • The 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: dogmatism; contempt of others; scepticism. II. ITS CAUSES: ig...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    WILD GRAPES Isaiah 5:8. _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 be lost, if...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in the fifth chapter the Lord takes up the parable of a vineyard in which He likens Judah or Israel, His people, unto a vineyard. Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 3:18; Job 11:12; John 9:41; Proverbs 26:12; Prov

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