Then [someone] told David, saying, "Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators with Absalom." And David said, "O LORD, 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 struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed."

"But indeed for this [purpose] I have raised you up, that I may show My power [in] you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.

"But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as [it is] this day.

So it was, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, "Have we made you the king's counselor? Cease! Why should you be killed?" Then the prophet ceased, and said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my advice."

But Amaziah would not heed, for it [came] from God, that He might give them into the hand [of their enemies,] because they sought the gods of Edom.

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

The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.

Who [is] he [who] speaks and it comes to pass, [When] the Lord has not commanded [it?]

And though they hide themselves on top of Carmel, From there I will search and take them; Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea, From there I will command the serpent, and it shall 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 defeat the counsel of Ahithophel for me.

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

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot carry out their plans.

They meet with darkness in the daytime, And grope at noontime as in the night.

There are many plans in a man's heart, Nevertheless the LORD's counsel -- that will stand.

[There is] no wisdom or understanding Or counsel against the LORD.

Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; Speak the word, but it will not stand, For God [is] with us."

For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."

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 dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.