2 Samuel 15:31
Christian Standard Bible
31 Then someone reported to David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”
“Lord,” David pleaded, “please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!” (A)
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2 Samuel 15:31
New International Version
31 Now David had been told, “Ahithophel(A) is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David prayed, “Lord, turn Ahithophel’s counsel into foolishness.”
2 Samuel 15:31
King James Version
31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
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Job 5:12-14
Christian Standard Bible
12 He frustrates the schemes of the crafty
so that they[a] achieve no success.
13 He traps the wise in their craftiness
so that the plans of the deceptive
are quickly brought to an end.(A)
14 They encounter darkness by day,
and they grope at noon
as if it were night.(B)
Footnotes
- 5:12 Lit their hands
Job 5:12-14
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Job 5:12-14
King James Version
12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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Psalm 33:10
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10 The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations;
he thwarts the plans of the peoples.(A)
Psalm 33:10
New International Version
Psalm 33:10
King James Version
10 The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
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Isaiah 29:14
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14 Therefore, I will again confound these people
with wonder after wonder.(A)
The wisdom of their wise will vanish,(B)
and the perception of their perceptive will be hidden.
Isaiah 29:14
New International Version
Isaiah 29:14
King James Version
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
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Jeremiah 51:57
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57 I will make her princes and sages drunk,
along with her governors, officials, and warriors.
Then they will fall asleep forever
and never wake up.(A)
This is the King’s declaration;
the Lord of Armies is his name.(B)
Jeremiah 51:57
King James Version
57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
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1 Corinthians 1:20
Christian Standard Bible
20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the teacher of the law?[a] Where is the debater of this age?(A) Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?
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- 1:20 Or scholar
1 Corinthians 1:20
New International Version
20 Where is the wise person?(A) Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age?(B) Has not God made foolish(C) the wisdom of the world?
1 Corinthians 1:20
King James Version
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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1 Corinthians 1:27
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27 Instead, God has chosen(A) what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.
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1 Corinthians 1:27
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27 But God chose(A) the foolish(B) things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
1 Corinthians 1:27
King James Version
27 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;
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