Jeremiah 8:9

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?

The wise men are ... dismayed - confounded.

They have rejected the word of the Lord; and - and as the inevitable, necessary consequence, "what wisdom is in them?"

What wisdom - literally, the wisdom of what? i:e., wisdom in what respect? The Word of the Lord being the only true source of wisdom (; ; , "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"). 10-12. Repeated from Jeremiah 6:12. (See a similar repetition, ; ).

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them - succeed to the possession of them.