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Job 5:13
He catches the wise in their own craftiness, And the counsel of the cunning comes quickly upon them.
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Romans 1:21-22
because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.Professing to be wise, they became fools,
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Psalms 141:10
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, While I escape safely.
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Isaiah 44:25
Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge foolishness;
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1 Corinthians 1 19-1 Corinthians 1 20
For it is written:“ I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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1 Corinthians 2 6
However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
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Psalms 7:14-15
Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity; Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood.He made a pit and dug it out, And has fallen into the ditch which he made.
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Isaiah 29:14-16
Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work Among this people, A marvelous work and a wonder; For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the Lord, And their works are in the dark; They say,“ Who sees us?” and,“ Who knows us?”Surely you have things turned around! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay; For shall the thing made say of him who made it,“ He did not make me”? Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it,“ He has no understanding”?
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Psalms 9:15-16
The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.The Lord is known by the judgment He executes; The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah
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Exodus 18:11
Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; for in the very thing in which they behaved proudly, He was above them.”
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Isaiah 19:11-14
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give foolish counsel. How do you say to Pharaoh,“ I am the son of the wise, The son of ancient kings?”Where are they? Where are your wise men? Let them tell you now, And let them know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt.The princes of Zoan have become fools; The princes of Noph are deceived; They have also deluded Egypt, Those who are the mainstay of its tribes.The Lord has mingled a perverse spirit in her midst; And they have caused Egypt to err in all her work, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
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Exodus 1:10
come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.”
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2 Samuel 16 23
Now the advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one had inquired at the oracle of God. So was all the advice of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
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2 Samuel 15 31
Then someone told David, saying,“ Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said,“ O Lord, I pray, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
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Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided.
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2 Samuel 17 14
So Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“ The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than the advice of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had purposed to defeat the good advice of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring disaster on Absalom.
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2 Samuel 17 23
Now when Ahithophel saw that his advice was not followed, he saddled a donkey, and arose and went home to his house, to his city. Then he put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died; and he was buried in his father’s tomb.
