Is God the author of confusion? Bible Contradictions

This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

Verses

Yes.

Genesis 11:7-9 View context

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

1 Corinthians 1:27 View context

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;