And someone reported to David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!

And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have persevered with God and with men, and have prevailed.

And indeed for this purpose I have ordained you, to show My power in you, and to declare My name in all the earth.

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through; for Jehovah your God had made his spirit stubborn and hardened his heart, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.

So it was, as he spoke with him, that the king said to him, Have we made you the king's counselor? Stop! Why should you be killed? So the prophet stopped, and said, I know that God has given counsel to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my counsel.

But Amaziah would not listen, for it was from God, to deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had resorted to the gods of Edom.

For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.

Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He restrains and frustrates the devices of the people.

Who is he who speaks and it occurs, if the Lord has not commanded it?

And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. Even if they hide from My eyes in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and he will bite them.

But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as I was your father's servant previously, so I will now also be your servant, then you may frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel for me.

Now the counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one had inquired at the Word of God. So was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot bring about their success;

They meet with darkness by day, and grope at midday as in the night.

There are many plans in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of Jehovah shall stand.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah.

Take counsel and make plans, but they will be frustrated. Speak a word, but it shall not stand; for the Mighty God is with us.

For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness;

So the master commended the unjust steward because he had acted prudently. For the sons of this world are more prudent in their generation than the sons of light.