The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?
⛓ Read Jeremiah 8 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The wise men shall be put to shame... they have rejected the word of the LORD, and what wisdom is in them?' parallels Paul's claim that the world's wisdom failed to know God. The shaming of the wise and the linkage of wisdom to receiving God's word cohere, though the verbal contact is moderate.
Low confidenceJeremiah taunts that the wise are put to shame, having rejected the LORD's word, so 'what wisdom is in them?' This coheres with Paul's call to become a fool to be wise and the futility of the wise, but the link is thematic and faint relative to the explicit Job and Psalm citations. Marked low and contested.
Low confidence