Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
⛓ Read Psalm 94 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Paul's 'And again, The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless' quotes Psalm 94:11 (LXX 93:11), with 'the wise' substituted for the psalm's 'man' to fit the wisdom argument. The chained 'and again' citation formula and close verbal correspondence make this a high-confidence quotation. The deliberate adaptation ('the wise' for 'man') is a known Pauline tailoring of the source.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity' faintly underlies 'became vain (emataiothesan) in their reasoning.' Low verbal volume.
Low confidence