Holy Scripture
Deuteronomy 32:29
A church father on this verse
“"It is a nation without counsel and without prudence: would that they were wise and understood and foresaw their last things." He touches upon the three parts of intelligence, namely memory of things past, understanding of things present, and circumspection regarding things future. Whoever does not have this understan…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
29They had not sense to understand: Let them reserve these things against the time to come.
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27Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long, Lest their enemies should combine against them; Lest they should say, Our own high arm, And not the Lord, has done all these things.
28It is a nation that has lost counsel, Neither is there understanding in them.
— Deuteronomy 32:29 —
30How should one pursue a thousand, And two rout tens of thousands, If God had not sold them, And the Lord delivered them up?
31For their gods are not as our God, But our enemies are void of understanding.