While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued; [the wicked] are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

Against Your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against Your saints.

They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

If they should exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:

And now come [here, and] curse this people for me, for they are stronger than us. Perhaps we may be able to smite some of them, and cast them out of the land; for I know that whomsoever you bless, they are blessed, and whomsoever you curse, they are cursed.

who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty.

And He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants.

There are ways that seem to be right to a man, but the end of them looks to the depth of hell.

There is no wisdom, there is no courage, there is no counsel against the ungodly.

This [king] took advantage of our race, and oppressed our fathers, to make their babies exposed, in order that they might not preserve their lives.

Now when it was day, some of the Jews joined in a conspiracy and bound themselves by a curse, saying neither would they eat nor drink until they would kill Paul.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

and again, "The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are useless."

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.