Contradictions and Paradoxes in Proverbs 27:11

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Proverbs 27:11 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Proverbs 27:11. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Solomon, if you make smart choices and learn well, it will make your parents happy. It will also help them feel proud and stand up to anyone who says bad things about them.

Proverbs 27:11: My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

Contradiction with Proverbs 3:5

Proverbs 3:5 advises trust in the Lord with all your heart and not to lean on your own understanding, whereas Proverbs 27:11 emphasizes the importance of wisdom and understanding for making one's heart glad.

Proverbs 3:5: Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 17:9

While Proverbs 27:11 values wisdom and understanding in a son to make a father glad, Jeremiah 17:9 suggests that the heart is deceitful and can't be comprehended, undermining the reliability of human wisdom.

Jeremiah 17:9: The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 8:17

Ecclesiastes 8:17 implies that even with wisdom and pursuit of understanding, humans cannot fully comprehend God's work, which contrasts with the empowerment of understanding in Proverbs 27:11.

Ecclesiastes 8:17: Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek [it] out, yet he shall not find [it]; yea further; though a wise [man] think to know [it], yet shall he not be able to find [it].

Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 1:19

1 Corinthians 1:19 indicates that God will destroy the wisdom of the wise, suggesting a viewpoint where wisdom, as praised in Proverbs 27:11, may not hold intrinsic value in the divine context.

1 Corinthians 1:19: For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

Contradiction with Isaiah 55:8-9

This passage highlights that God's thoughts and ways are higher than man's, challenging the notion promoted in Proverbs 27:11 of deriving gladness and approval through human understanding and wisdom.

Isaiah 55:8-9: For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
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