New Revised Standard Version
For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

Contemporary English Version
Even when God is foolish, he is wiser than everyone else, and even when God is weak, he is stronger than everyone else.

New American Bible
For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men: and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men: and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

the foolishness.

1 Corinthians 1:18,27-29 For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness: but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God. . . .

Exodus 13:17 And when Pharao had sent out the people, the Lord led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, which is near; thinking lest perhaps they would repent, if they should see wars arise against them, and would return into Egypt.

Exodus 14:2-4 Speak to the children of Israel: Let them turn and encamp over against Phihahiroth, which is between Magdal and the sea over against Beelsephon: you shall encamp before it upon the sea. . . .

Joshua 6:2-5 And the Lord said to Joshua: Behold I have given into thy hands Jericho, and the king thereof, and all the valiant men. . . .

Judges 7:2-8 And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people that are with thee are many, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel should glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength. . . .

Judges 15:15,16 And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass, which lay there, catching it up, he slew therewith a thousand men. . . .

1 Samuel 17:40-51 And he took his staff, which he had always in his hands: and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them into the shepherd's scrip, which he had with him, and he took a sling in his hand, and went forth against the Philistine. . . .

1 Kings 20:14 And Achab said: By whom? And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: By the servants of the princes of the provinces. And he said: Who shall begin to fight? And he said: Thou.

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Zechariah 4:6,7 And he answered, and spoke to me, saying: This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying: Not with an army, nor by might, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Zechariah 12:7,8 And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Juda, as in the beginning: that the house of David, and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, may not boast and magnify themselves against Juda. . . .

Romans 11:33-36 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways! . . .