Jeremiah 8:9
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

Young's Literal Translation
Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what—have they?

King James Bible
The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

Hebrew
The wise
חֲכָמִ֔ים (ḥă·ḵā·mîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 2450: Wise

will be put to shame;
הֹבִ֣ישׁוּ (hō·ḇî·šū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 954: To pale, to be ashamed, to be disappointed, delayed

they will be dismayed
חַ֖תּוּ (ḥat·tū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2865: To prostrate, to break down, either, by violence, by confusion and fear

and snared.
וַיִּלָּכֵ֑דוּ (way·yil·lā·ḵê·ḏū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3920: To catch, to capture, occupy, to choose, to cohere

They have rejected
מָאָ֔סוּ (mā·’ā·sū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3988: To spurn, to disappear

the word
בִדְבַר־ (ḇiḏ·ḇar-)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

of the LORD,
יְהוָה֙ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

so what
מֶ֖ה (meh)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

wisdom
וְחָכְמַֽת־ (wə·ḥā·ḵə·maṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 2451: Wisdom

do they really have?
לָהֶֽם׃ (lā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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