Your heart shall muse on terror. Where is the scribe? Where is the one who weighs? Where is the one who counts the towers?

Who has believed Our report? And to whom has the arm of Jehovah been revealed?

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

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!

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.

So Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Jehovah had purposed to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring calamity upon Absalom.

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not carried out, he saddled a donkey, and arose and went home to his house, to his city, put his house in order, and hanged himself, and died; and he was buried in his father's tomb.

He causes counselors to walk away barefoot, and makes fools of the judges.

He removes the lips of the trusted ones, and takes away the discretion of the elders.

He takes away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a wilderness with no path.

who brings to nothing the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns the wise backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Professing to be wise, they become foolish,