Contradictions and Paradoxes in Psalms 78:3

This verse points out human limitations in life span and knowledge, highlighting ignorance rather than the transmission of known truths, as it states: "For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow."

This verse presents the pursuit of wisdom and knowledge as potentially burdensome, contradicting the positive transmission of knowledge in Psalms 78:3: "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."

Jesus expresses gratitude that God has hidden certain things from the wise and prudent, contradicting the idea that knowledge is straightforwardly passed on and universally accessible: "I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes."

This verse questions human wisdom, and by extension, traditional wisdom passed down by elders, potentially contradicting reliance on ancestral knowledge: "Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?"

Here, divine action results in the wise losing their understanding, challenging the value of received wisdom and knowledge: "Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid."

This verse suggests a new covenant where teaching one's neighbor is unnecessary because all will inherently know God, in contrast to Psalms 78:3 which focuses on learned knowledge through teaching: "And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord."

This verse dismisses the wisdom of this world as foolishness with God, which contrasts with the ancestral teaching and wisdom highlighted in Psalms 78:3: "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness."