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Job 5:13
He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.
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Romans 1:21-22
For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
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Psalms 141:10
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape.
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Isaiah 44:25
who frustrates the omens of the empty talkers and humiliates the omen readers, who overturns the counsel of the wise men and makes their advice seem foolish,
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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 I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.”Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?
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1 Corinthians 2 6
Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.
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Psalms 7:14-15
See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies–he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made.
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Isaiah 29:14-16
Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people– an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.”Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast,“ Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“ He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“ He doesn’t understand”?
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Psalms 9:15-16
The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.The LORD revealed himself; he accomplished justice; the wicked were ensnared by their own actions.( Higgaion. Selah)
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Exodus 18:11
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”
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Isaiah 19:11-14
The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; Pharaoh’s wise advisers give stupid advice. How dare you say to Pharaoh,“ I am one of the sages, one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?”But where, oh where, are your wise men? Let them tell you, let them find out what the LORD who commands armies has planned for Egypt.The officials of Zoan are fools, the officials of Memphis are misled; the rulers of her tribes lead Egypt astray.The LORD has made them undiscerning; they lead Egypt astray in all she does, so that she is like a drunk sliding around in his own vomit.
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Exodus 1:10
Come, let’s deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country.”
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2 Samuel 16 23
In those days Ahithophel’s advice was considered as valuable as a prophetic revelation. Both David and Absalom highly regarded the advice of Ahithophel.
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2 Samuel 15 31
Now David had been told,“ Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed,“ Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O LORD!”
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Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.
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2 Samuel 17 14
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“ The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel.” Now the LORD had decided to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the LORD could bring disaster on Absalom.
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2 Samuel 17 23
When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave of his father.