Then someone reported to David, ‘Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.’ ‘Lord,’ David pleaded, ‘please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness! ’
Job 17:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not honour them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But their hearts [Lord] You have closed to understanding; therefore You will not let them triumph [by giving them a verdict against me]. American Standard Version (1901) For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt them. Common English Bible You’ve closed their mind to insight; therefore, you won’t be exalted. Catholic Public Domain Version You have set their heart far from discipline; therefore, they will not be praised. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou hast set their heart far from understanding: therefore they shall not be exalted. |
Then someone reported to David, ‘Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.’ ‘Lord,’ David pleaded, ‘please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness! ’
Since the Lord had decreed that Ahithophel’s good advice be undermined in order to bring about Absalom’s ruin, Absalom and all the men of Israel said, ‘The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel’s advice.’
While he was still speaking to him, the king asked, ‘Have we made you the king’s counsellor? Stop, why should you lose your life? ’ So the prophet stopped, but he said, ‘I know that God intends to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.’
He deprives trusted advisers of speech and takes away the elders’ good judgement.
If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of confusion. The leaders have made Egypt stagger in all she does, as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.
At that time Jesus said, ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.
He answered, ‘Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.
as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that cannot see and ears that cannot hear, to this day. ,
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?