And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
Job 5:13 - Revised Standard Version He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: And the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He catches the [so-called] wise in their own trickiness, and the counsel of the schemers is brought to a quick end. [I Cor. 3:19, 20.] American Standard Version (1901) He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. Common English Bible trapping the wise in their cleverness so that the plans of the devious don’t succeed. Catholic Public Domain Version He catches the wise in their cleverness and dissipates the counsel of the perverse. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked. |
And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and went off home to his own city. And he set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
And the king said, “Hang him on that.” So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.
but when Esther came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his wicked plot which he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”
with the pure thou dost show thyself pure; and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.
for the perverse man is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.
and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their plans; and they will consult the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the wizards;
who frustrates the omens of liars, and makes fools of diviners; who turns wise men back, and makes their knowledge foolish;
Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not heed any of his words.”
Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
“How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.
The wise men shall be put to shame, they shall be dismayed and taken; lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them?
Speak, “Thus says the Lord: ‘The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves after the reaper, and none shall gather them.’ ”
And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she pushed against the wall, and pressed Balaam's foot against the wall; so he struck her again.
He has shown strength with his arm, he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts,
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”