Your soul shall meditate terror. Where are the scribes? Where are the counselors? Where is he that numbers them that are growing up,

O Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the prudent I will annul."

And it was reported to David, saying, Ahithophel also [is] among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Lord my God, disconcert, I pray, the counsel of Ahithophel.

And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counseled in former days, [was] as if one should inquire of the word of God: so [was] all the counsel of Ahithophel both to David and also to Absalom.

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 has purposed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, that the Lord might bring all evil upon Absalom.

And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, and he saddled his donkey, and rose and departed to his house into his city; and he gave orders to his household, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

He leads counselors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth.

He changes the lips of the trusty, and He knows the understanding of the elders.

Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth, and He causes them to wander in a way, they have not known, [saying],

Who else will frustrate the tokens of those that have divining spirits, and prophecies from the heart of [man]? Turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;

Professing to be wise, they became fools,