His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down.
When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble.
You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.
would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof, therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices. For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them;
The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress; the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success. He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.
And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
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